Windpipe transplant success in UK child
Mar. 19th, 2010 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinpraA 10-year-old British boy has become the first child to undergo a windpipe transplant with an organ crafted from his own stem cells.
It is hoped that using the boy's own tissue in the nine-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital will cut the risk of rejection.
( Read the rest at the BBC online )
sorry for forgetting to post the link to the article the first time!!!
It is hoped that using the boy's own tissue in the nine-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital will cut the risk of rejection.
( Read the rest at the BBC online )
sorry for forgetting to post the link to the article the first time!!!