Trachea transplant trial in Sweden: an Italian surgeon put to the test

The Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, tried in Sweden for aggravated abuse, was sentenced Thursday, June 16 to "

" having been responsible for "

" on one of his patients.

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“

,” the magistrates said in a statement.

But in the case of the third patient, the court found that the surgeon had not taken into account the result on the first two and should be sentenced to two years of probation having made himself responsible for "

" .

of this patient.

"

", added the court.

“Five years in prison”

A suspended sentence with probation is an alternative sentence replacing a prison sentence.

The Italian researcher rose to world fame in 2011 by performing the world's first transplant of an artificial plastic trachea to be colonized by the patient's stem cells.

At the end of the last day of his trial in Solna in the suburbs of Stockholm on Monday, prosecutor Jim Westerberg had estimated that the charges justified a sentence of "

".

The Italian surgeon, who appeared free, operated on eight people between 2011 and 2014, including three at the Karolinska Institute hospital in Stockholm, from which the committee that awards the Nobel Prize for Medicine originated.

Of Paolo Macchiarini's patients, only one survived, having had the artificial trachea designed and implanted by the doctor removed during an operation in Russia in 2014. The three patients treated in Sweden died, although the direct link between their death and the surgeries has not been established.

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Prosecutors have argued that Paolo Macchiarini's surgeries went against “

” and that the surgeon acted “

” in continuing treatments despite the appearance of complications.