{"id":216,"date":"2013-11-11T18:44:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2013-11-11T18:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:44:21","slug":"long-term-follow-up-of-tracheal-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/2013\/11\/11\/long-term-follow-up-of-tracheal-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term follow up of tracheal transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there was note of \u00a0a <a title=\"BMJ article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/347\/bmj.f6365\">5 year follow-up<\/a> of the young woman, Claudia Castillio, who had a tissue engineered tracheal transplant in 2008. She has retained good lung function with no immunological complications and the only problem has been scarring around areas of the graft, particularly at the anastomoses which has required repeated endoluminal stenting and regular bronchoscopy. As the surgeon Paolo Macchiarini noted, \u201cThe scarring which occurred in this patient shows that long term biomechanical stability can be improved, something which is currently under active preclinical investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there was note of \u00a0a 5 year follow-up of the young woman, Claudia Castillio, who had a tissue engineered tracheal transplant in 2008. She has retained good lung function with no immunological complications and the only problem has been scarring around areas of the graft, particularly at the anastomoses which has required repeated endoluminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[297,299],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trials","tag-tissue-engineering","tag-tracheal-transplantation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}