Surgeon on trial in Sweden over experimental windpipe transplants
by AFP in Stockholm from on (#5YKYN)
Paolo Macchiarini, who made headlines for pioneering surgery, charged with aggravated assault over procedure
An Italian doctor who made headlines for pioneering windpipe surgery has gone on trial in Sweden, charged with aggravated assault for performing the experimental procedure.
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 Institute.
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