' Doing well ' stem cell op child

cluttered is Finn Lynch to rebuild himself in his windpipe stem cell surgery pioneer to the trachea transplant using his own stem cells back to school, and doing the first child.

Shiodome Finn - now Lynch, groundbreaking 13 surgery at the hospital in 2010.

Him with Ushio cells immune system attacks meaning no denial or organ.

The good things his surgeon, said so far that could send Shiodome normal teenage life.

He was born long segment tracheal stenosis causes difficulty in breathing. His lung collapsed on the day he was born, he to rebuild his air time of 6, he big and surgery.

Metal tube will open his airway in 2009, one was used to hold the vast amount of main vascular injury bleeding coming from the heart.

Spray cell

Surgeons at this stage was tried a pioneering operation. To grow instead of the new trachea, they took a donor trachea, then stripped of all cells in the donor. It was web Collagen fibers in three-dimensional ported to Shiodome what was left.

On the other hand, can be other types from the skin cells, nerve cells, taken from Shiodome marrow stem cells are. These [newly sprayed into the trachea transplant.

Was trying in 2008, the 30 year old woman in Spain, before the surgery, was the first child of the Shiodome.

Professor Martin Birchall, surgeon, speaking, 2010: it "can" replace the transplant

He is being monitored, two years past and more information is published in the Lancet.

No denied signs of graft and "last follow up juvenile growth and normal lung function, and was back in school was alive".

Martin Elliott, said Director of public service for children Hospital of severe tracheal: "children tracheal transplantation to surgical intervention are ideal outcomes normal airway and lung function, good general growth, a decent living quality, further.

"That we have achieved this far many challenges remain to the first trial of organ transplantation in the 1950s similarly to the end of the school. ?