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Paolo Macchiarini, the surgeon for unauthorized transplants, sentenced in Sweden

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The court, which made the decision unanimously, sentenced the Viareggio surgeon for one of three cases of trachea transplantation

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The Guardian

Sweden: surgeon convicted of bodily harm over synthetic trachea transplant

Court finds that Paolo Macchiarini carried out experimental procedure on patient who was not critically illA Swedish court has found an Italian surgeon, once hailed for pioneering windpipe surgery, guilty of causing bodily harm to a patient, but cleared him of assault charges.Paolo Macchiarini won praise in 2011 after claiming to have performed the world’s first synthetic trachea transplants using stem cells, while he was a surgeon at Stockholm’…

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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Italian surgeon gets conditional sentence in Sweden case

An Italian surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s first stem-cell windpipe transplants at Sweden’s leading hospital has been given a conditional sentence for causing bodily harm to a patient

1 year ago·United States

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Disgraced windpipe surgeon convicted in Sweden for harming patient

A Swedish court on Thursday found an Italian surgeon, once hailed for pioneering windpipe surgery, guilty of causing bodily harm to a patient, but cleared him of assault charges.Paolo Macchiarini won praise in 2011 after claiming to have performed the world's first synthetic trachea transplants using stem cells, while he was a surgeon at Stockholm's Karolinska University Hospital.The experimental procedure was hailed as a breakthrough in regener…

1 year ago·United States

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Italian surgeon gets conditional sentence in Sweden case

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Italian surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s first stem-cell windpipe transplants at Sweden’s leading hospital was given a conditional sentence Thursday for causing bodily harm to a patient. He was acquitted of two other charges.Stem-cell scientist Dr. Paolo Macchiarini was once considered a leading figure in regenerative medicine and is credited with creating the world’s first windpipe partially ma…

1 year ago·Tacoma, United States

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