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Associated Press LONDON -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
"This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.See the full content of this document
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If successful, the procedure could become a new standard of treatment, said Genden, who was not involved in the research.
The results were published ...See the full content of this document
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