Topic: Claudia Castillo
European doctors give woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cellsDoctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. Only a handful of windpipe, or ...
As of now, the woman, Claudia Castillo, who lives in Barcelona, Spain, with two children aged 15 and 4, does not need immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ.. The doctors who performed the procedure - from the Hospital Clinic of ...
Claudia Castillo's own stem cells were used to create an artificial airway which replaced the bronchus to her left lung which had collapsed after she suffered a serious tuberculosis infection.. Even though she received no immunosuppressive drugs, so far doctors have ...
Share | The pioneering transplant of a windpipe stripped of its cells and seeded with recipient stem cells has given a 30-year old Colombian woman a new lease on life.. Claudia Castillo, stricken with tuberculosis, was facing the loss of her left lung ...
Claudia Castillo's own stem cells were used to create an artificial airway which replaced the bronchus to her left lung which had collapsed after she suffered a serious tuberculosis infection.. Even though she received no immunosuppressive drugs, so far doctors have ...
As of now, the woman, Claudia Castillo, who lives in Barcelona, Spain, with two children aged 15 and 4, does not need immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ.. The doctors who performed the procedure -- from the Hospital Clinic of ...
A Colombian woman has become the world's first recipient of windpipe tissue constructed from a combination of donated tissue and her own cells.. "Surgeons can now start to see and understand the very real potential for adult stem cells and tissue ...
