Five years on, first ever tissue-engineered airway transplant remains successful

New results published in The Lancet reveal that five years after the first successful transplantation of a tissue-engineered airway (reported in The Lancet in 2008 [1]) the recipient continues to enjoy a good quality of life, and has not experienced any immunological complications or rejection of the implanted airway. The pioneering operation allowed a 30-year-old Colombian mother of two to receive a new section of tissue engineered trachea (windpipe), after part of her own trachea collapsed due to complications from tuberculosis...