The
Telegraph has the exclusive interview with the woman who had her wind
pipe replaced using her own adult stem cells. This piece also includes video. Excerpt:
"The moment I woke after the
procedure, I looked up at the doctor and he smiled and told me it had been
successful - it was the best moment ever," she said. "I knew then
that I had a life and a future."
The 30-year-old Colombian mother of two,
who has lived in Spain for nine years, was struck down by tuberculosis five
years ago. She was given conventional treatment but her condition worsened.
"I was coughing all the time, I
couldn't walk very far and I couldn't say more than a few words at a time
before becoming breathless," said the dental nurse speaking on Wednesday
at the Barcelona hospital where she was treated. "I wasn't able to work
and couldn't do the normal things mothers do for their children."
Last January she was offered the chance of
a replacement windpipe grown using her own stem cells, a pioneering process
known as "tissue engineering". Without the transplant, surgeons would
have had to remove one of lungs, a procedure that carries a high mortality
rate.
LifeNews also reports.