Pathbreaking Stem Cell Surgery Leads to the Growth of a New Windpipe in Brit Boy

An 11-year-old British boy goes down in the annals of medical science as the first child to undergo a stem cell surgery that helped him grow a new windpipe.

Ciaran Finn-Lynch, 11, can now breathe on his own, reports the Daily Express.

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Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital conducted the trachea transplant in March.

They took stem cells from Ciaran's bone marrow and injected them into a donor windpipe which had been stripped of its own cells.

The organ was implanted into Ciaran and the stem cells were allowed to transform themselves in his own body.

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By using the boy's own cells, doctors could avoid the potential problem of his immune system rejecting the organ.

And doctors have revealed the transplant is a huge success after the blood supply successfully returned to his windpipe four weeks ago.

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Source-ANI