Five year results show success of first tissue engineered trachea transplant

The first tissue engineered airway transplantation remains successful five years on, with the patient enjoying a good quality of life and no immunological complications or rejection of the implanted airway.

In 2008 a 30 year old Colombian woman was given a new section of tissue engineered trachea after part of her own trachea collapsed as a result of complications of tuberculosis.1 An …