Long-term follow up of tracheal transplant
Recently there was note of a 5 year follow-up of the young woman, Claudia Castillio, who had a tissue engineered tracheal transplant in 2008. She has retained good lung function with no immunological complications and the only problem has been scarring around areas of the graft, particularly at the anastomoses which has required repeated endoluminal […]
Read moreSuccessful transplantation of a tracheobronchial airway
This fascinating report appeared in the Lancet on line in the last couple of weeks (Jungebluth et al Nov 24, 2011). This is a single case report from a team led by Paolo Macchiarini who three years ago reported the first tissue engineered tracheal transplantation with a non immunogenic scaffold of allogeneic human donor trachea […]
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