Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Trachea from stem saves lives

Barcelona - With an air tube-like stem cell transplant doctors from a young mother from Barcelona's life saved. The doctors removed all cells from a donor trachea and then created from the bone marrow of the 30-year-olds cartilage tissue. So they covered the transplant and the patient put it On. The woman shows up today, no rejection and takes no medication to suppress the immune system.

Born Claudia C. Kolumbianerin suffered for years from tuberculosis, as the journal The Lancet reported. Finally her collapsed left lung, so they regularly had to be hospitalized. To her children, she could no longer care. Originally doctors wanted her left lung completely removed, the head of thoracic surgery, Paolo Macchiarini, but suggested instead a transplantation.

Italian scientists at the University of Padua away all the cells of the donor trachea, while doctors at the University of Bristol marrow from the hip of patient withdrawals. It created it and cartilage tissue cells, with whom they auskleideten the windpipe. "They have a functional, biological structure, which can not be disgusted," said Kirk Allen of the American Society for transplants. "This is an important step forward, but the construction of an entire institution is still far away."

C. The patient is happy about the transplant, which her taking drugs with severe side effects saved. "I was scared at the beginning," she said in a statement. "I enjoy my life now and I'm very glad that my illness was cured." You can, according to the doctors again care for their children and also a certain distance run without shortness of breath. She said even she had only recently an entire night in a dance club in Barcelona.

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