FOCUS ON FUTURE MEDICINE - TISSUE ENGINEERED TRACHEA TRANSPLANTATION
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An international team of scientist from Spain, Italy and UK recently developed a method of engineering a trachea from a patient’s own stem cells. The trachea was then successfully transplanted to the patient. What implications does this stem cell technique have for other organ transplants? You are listening to ReachMD, The Channel for Medical Professionals. Welcome to The Clinician's Roundtable. I am your host Dr. Lee Freedman and joining us to discuss tissue engineered trachea transplantation is Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, Head Of Thoracic Surgery at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Macchiarini performed this successful trachea transplant.
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Well, I would like to thank my guest from the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona Spain, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. We have been talking about the tissue-engineered trachea transplant that he has developed and participated in. It is really a very exciting area of development. It is not something that is on the horizon for every patient, but we are starting to be able to use patient’s own stem cells to help the transplantation such that some patient’s may not need to be on immunosuppressive therapy after these marvelous procedures. I am Dr. Lee Freedman and I want to thank you for listening to The Clinician's Roundtable on ReachMD, The Channel For Medical Professionals.
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