Claudia C. suffered for years from tuberculosis. Your left lung collapsed, so they had to go to hospital regularly. Originally, her left lung completely removed. Instead, the doctors suggested a transplant before. The implant was bred from their own stem cells.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 in the online edition of the medical journal The Lancet said. Finally her collapsed left lung, so that they are regularly treated in hospital had to be. 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. 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." They can, according to the doctors again care for their children and also a certain distance running, without getting shortness of breath. She said even she had only recently an entire night in a dance club in Barcelona.
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