Doctors at Bologna's Rizzoli
Orthopedic Institute said Tuesday that they successfully
performed the transplant of a section of a human spine in a
world first.
On September 6 the team led by Dr Alessandro Gasbarrini
replaced four vertebrae in a 77-year-old patient with bone
cancer with a section held in an Emilia-Romagna muscle-bone
tissue bank.
"He's fine," Gasbarrini said of the patient.
"He has been discharged.
"He was with us for about a month.
"After two weeks of post-operation checks he was transferred
to another department for physiotherapy and there he was put
back on his feet and in a condition to have a life that is as
normal as possible.
"When he was up to it, he went back to be with his loved
ones".
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