The Lancet reports that Swedish researchers successfully transplanted into a 10 year old girl, a vein grown from the patient’s own stem cells. She had a block in the vein that carries blood from the spleen and intestines to the liver. Doctors took a 9 cm segment of vein from a donor and removed all the living cells from it. Then they used the girl’s stem cells harvested from her bone marrow to cover the vein. The stem cells grew over and covered the vein in two weeks. It was then transplanted into the patient.
Prof. Sahasranam KV, MD, DM, Former Prof. & HOD Medical College | Senior Consultant Cardiologist