Karolinska University Hospital has a close collaboration with Karolinska Institute.
Karolinska University Hospital is one of Scandinavia’s premier health facilities. Together with the world-respected Karolinska Institutet, we lead in medical break-throughs in Sweden.
The project was led by Professor Paolo Macchiarini at the Karolinska Institutet, who now continues to improve and extend the regenerative medicine approaches for transplantation to the lungs, heart, and oesophagus.
For the first time in history, a patient has been given a new trachea made from a synthetic scaffold seeded with his own stem cells. The patient, a 36-year old man, is well on the way to full recovery and will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. The operation was performed on June 9th 2011 at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, Stockholm, by Professor Paolo Macchiarini, of Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, and colleagues.
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