Ten-year-old girl gets vein grown from her stem cells. 13 June 2012Last updated at 19:50 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News A 10-year-old girl has had a major blood vessel in her body replaced with one grown with her own stem cells, Swedish doctors report.
She had poor blood flow between her intestines and liver. Surgeons said there was a "striking" improvement in her quality of life. This is the latest in a series of body parts grown, or engineered, to match the tissue of the patient. Last year, scientists created a synthetic windpipe and then coated it with a patient's stem cells. Home-grown A blockage in the major blood vessel linking the intestines and the liver can cause serious health problems including internal bleeding and even death. In this case, other options such as using artificial grafts to bypass the blockage, had failed. Doctors at the University of Gothenburg and Shalgrenska University Hospital tried to make a vein out of the patient's own cells.
It used a process known as "decellularisation". Face transplant. A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face.
The world's first partial face transplant on a living human was carried out in France in 2005. The world's first full face transplant was completed in Spain in 2010.[1] Turkey,[2] France, The USA and Spain (in order of total number of successful face transplants performed) are considered the leading countries in face transplant in the world. Beneficiaries of face transplant[edit] An alternative to a face transplant is facial reconstruction, which typically involves moving the patient's own skin from their back, buttocks, thighs, or chest to their face in a series of as many as 50 operations to regain even limited functionality, and a face that is often likened to a mask or a living quilt. L. History[edit] Self as donor ("face replant")[edit] The world's first full-face replant operation was on nine-year-old Sandeep Kaur, whose face was ripped off when her hair was caught in a thresher.
In Poland[edit] University of Maryland Completes Most Extensive Full Face Transplant to Date. For immediate release: March 27, 2012 Baltimore, MD – March 27, 2012 – The University of Maryland released details today of the most extensive full face transplant completed to date, including both jaws, teeth, and tongue.
The 36-hour operation occurred on March 19-20, 2012 at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center and involved a multi-disciplinary team of faculty physicians from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a team of over 150 nurses and professional staff. The face transplant, formally called a vascularized composite allograft (VCA), was part of a 72-hour marathon of transplant activity at one of the busiest transplant centers in the world. The family of one anonymous donor generously donated his face and also saved five other lives through the heroic gift of organ donation. Four of these transplants took place over the course of two days at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The scientific team that includes Drs.