Doctors give injured woman a new windpipe
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For more than 2½ years, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe.
Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe from a dead man into her arm, where it grew new tissue before being transplanted into her throat. The way doctors trained her body to accept donor tissue could yield new methods of growing or nurturing organs within patients, experts say.
The technique sounds like science fiction, but De Croock says it has transformed her life.
http://www.katu.com/news/national/81360307.html
Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe from a dead man into her arm, where it grew new tissue before being transplanted into her throat. The way doctors trained her body to accept donor tissue could yield new methods of growing or nurturing organs within patients, experts say.
The technique sounds like science fiction, but De Croock says it has transformed her life.
http://www.katu.com/news/national/81360307.html
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maisry
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Wonderful!
- 1 year ago
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maisry
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nursediesel
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So cool. Wonder if it acts the same. How's it feel when she swallows? Does she have the same sensations of cold when she inhales cold air? Would she feel something the same way if her airway is occluded? I have so many questions.
- 2 years ago
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nursediesel
