PATIENT DIARY CLAUDIA CASTILLO

摘要

In 2008, Claudia Castillo, age 30, underwent an operation to repair her windpipe. To eliminate the risk of rejection, surgeon Paolo Macchiarini of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona in Spain implanted a section of trachea seeded , with stem cells taken from Castillo s bone marrow. It was the world's first transplant surgery involving stem cells. I was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2004, and it gave me a lot of problems, especially at night. I kept coughing and coughing and getting worse. I spent a lot of time incapacitated, because I had to be quarantined. I also had bronchial stenosis, a condition in which the bronchial tubes narrow and make it hard to breathe. It's hard to fix because you can't just take , out one section of the bronchus and leave the other. But my doctor said he had this new technique to transplant a section of trachea into the bronchus.