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 ill

A 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's Karolinska University hospital. The experimental procedure was hailed as a breakthrough in regenerative medicine.