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Windpipe transplant successful with help from patient's stem cells

Published November 18, 2008, 10:21 pm, BG News

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.

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