Cell sheet successfully transplanted to girl's heart

Cell sheet successfully transplanted to girl's heart

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshiki Sawa, a professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Osaka University Hospital, talks in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2014, about his team's successful transplant of a sheet of cells to the heart of an 11-year-old girl, stricken with a grave heart disease, and subsequent improvement in her heart's functions. The cells were cultivated after being taken from the girl's own calf muscle tissue. It is believed to be the world's first such surgery performed on a child.

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