A 10-year-old girl has had a vein in her body replaced with a specially-grown one, Swedish doctors say. It was causing a blockage between her intestines and liver. A vein was taken from a dead man, and the cells from his body were removed from it. It was then covered in the girl's cells. Doctors said it gave a "striking" improvement to her life, later the new vein was transplanted into the body.
A first-time vein transplant...
This method - of growing human tissue in a laboratory - has worked with other body parts before but this is the first time anything like this has been done to a 10-year-olds vein. The operation took place at Shalgrenska University Hospital and at the University of Gothenburg.
The growing of the vein was an
alternative to taking a vein from somewhere else in the girl's body, which could
have give the expert doctors from Sweden
and London now hope to start trials of more operations like this.
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