LONDON — A car accident smashed Linda De Crook windpipe and she lived with constant pain for more than a quarter of a century.
Today, she has been implanted a new windpipe. Surgeons implanted the windpipe into her arm from a dead man. Implanted windpipe grew new tissue before being transplanted into her throat. First doctors trained her body to accept donor tissue. This could acquiesce new methods of nurturing organs within patients, experts say.
The technique echoes like science fiction, her life has transformed, De Crook says. She will no longer take anti-rejection drugs.
“My life became less livable all the time before my transplant, with persistent pain and jabbing as well as pricking in my throat and windpipe,” the 54-year-old Belgian told the newspaper in a telephone interview.