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In the US, the first trachea transplant in the world

2021-04-07T13:55:30.623Z


For the first time in the world, a complete trachea transplant was performed at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on a patient whose organ was damaged six years ago after a series of intubations. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 07 - For the first time in the world at the Mount Sinai hospital in New York a complete trachea transplant was performed on a patient whose organ was damaged six years ago after a series of intubations.


   The surgery, explains the clinic's release, took place last January 13, and the patient, a 56-year-old woman, is currently in good health.


    The trachea, the 'tube' that connects the larynx to the lungs, has always been considered very difficult to transplant due to the complexity of the blood vessels that run through it.

The surgery lasted 18 hours and required over 50 specialists: the trachea was taken from the donor and reconstructed in the recipient, and the different small blood vessels that carry oxygen to the organ were connected, meanwhile using a portion of the esophagus and thyroid to provide blood to tissue that was being rebuilt.

"For the first time we can offer a treatment option to patients with severe atracheal defects - says Eric Genden, head of the team -. This is particularly timely given the growing number of patients with tracheal problems due to intubation for Covid. Our transplant protocol is revascularization is reliable, reproducible and technically advanced ".


    In the past decades there have been several attempts at surgery on the trachea.

The Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini attempted the way of organ reconstruction with stem cells, but his line of research was strongly contested by the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm, where he worked, and never caught on.

In 2018, a donor's aorta was used in France, stabilized by an artificial structure and 'transformed' into a trachea.

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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