Monday, April 03, 2006

Patients receive first custom-made bladders

Source: Reuters
Posted: Mon Apr 3, 2006 11:32 PM BST

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Custom-made bladders grown from patients' own cells have been successfully transplanted and work, in some cases for years, scientists reported on Monday.

Writing in a special report in the Lancet medical journal, they described the cases of seven patients who had new bladders engineered from a plug of tissue grown from their own, dysfunctional bladders.

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