English and Italian doctors made a breakthrough with the recovery operation windpipe of a boy aged 10 years using stem cells grown in the body.Operations put the donor trachea lasted nine hours in the hospital Great Ormond Street, London. In the trachea planted stem cells taken from the patient's bone marrow. Stem cell next month is expected to transform into tracheal cells.
The boy was born with the condition suffer from long segment tracheal stenosis throat, where the hole is very small because they do not grow, likened him to breathe through a straw.
He received various medical treatment, but him condition continued to deteriorate until last november. Finally he referred to a stem cell pioneer University Hospital Careggi in Florence, Italy.
If successful this becomes a revolutionary regenerative medicine. In traditional transplants frequent rejection by the immune system organs of the patient. "This the first time a child is receiving treatment with stem cells. It was a historical landmark" said Professor Martin Birchall, Head of Translational Regenerative Medicine University College London.
Cell development in the new body will be undertaken twice and the boy was the second patient. According to cardiac surgeon, Professor Martin Elliot of Great Ormond Street, good condition and breathing comfortably.
