The youngest patient to receive an artificial trachea seeded with stem cells died, The New York Times reported today. Hannah Warren, who was born with a rare congenital defect that left her without a trachea, underwent surgery in April to have a synthetic trachea implanted which was seeded with stem cells from his bone marrow. She would have had 3 August.
His doctors told The New York Times that his death was due to complications from a second surgery was needed to repair her esophagus, which had not properly healed after initial surgery. They said that the trachea had been a good performance. The experimental technique used its surgeons received criticism from some experts, who say that 5 years after the first recipient of a similar transplant, the evidence is still lacking that the implanted trachea function as they should.
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