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Stem cells used to rebuild 10-year old Brit boy's windpipe | Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors have carried out a surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his body. In an operation Monday lasting nearly nine hours, doctors at the centre implanted the boy, who
has a rare condition called Long Segment Congenital Tracheal Stenosis, with a
donor trachea, or windpipe, that had been stripped of its cells and injected with
his own, reports The BBC. Over the next month, doctors expect the boy's bone marrow
stem cells to begin transforming themselves within his body into tracheal cells.
Long Segment Congenital Tracheal Stenosis is a condition in which patients are
born with an extremely narrow airway. Professor Martin Birchall, head of translational
regenerative medicine at University College London, who was part of the team behind
the operation, said it was a "real milestone". "It is the first time a child has
received stem cell organ treatment, and it's the longest airway that has ever
been replaced. "I think the technique will allow not just highly specialised hospitals
to carry out stem cell organ transplants."
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