Trachea: British boy Ciaran is first child to have windpipe grown from own stem cells
Ciaran Finn-Lynch, of the age of 11, who is the recipient of the world’s first bantling stem cell supported tracheal transplant, with his parents, Colleen and Paul
A British boy has become the first child to have his windpipe regrown using his own stem cells.
Ciaran Finn-Lynch, 11, underwent the pioneering weasand transplant in March and is set to return home to Northern Ireland following the surgery was declared a success.
Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London took descent cells from the youngster’s bone marrow and injected them into a donor windpipe which had been stripped of its own cells.
They implanted the organ and allowed the stem cells to transform themselves in his have body. By using his cells, doctors could avoid the potential moot point of Ciaran’s immune system rejecting the organ.
Ciaran’s parents, Colleen and Paul, very lately hope to take him home for the first time since November. They uttered the last few months had been a “rollercoaster” and paid impost to the surgeons who saved their son.
Ciaran was born by a condition called Long Segment Tracheal Stenosis, which left him by a windpipe just one millimetre across – making breathing incredibly difficult.