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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sravasti Dasgupta

Italian surgeon once hailed for pioneering windpipe surgery found guilty of bodily harm during operation

Corbis

A disgraced Italian doctor who won global praise for pioneering windpipe surgery has been convicted by a Swedish court for causing bodily harm during an operation.

Paolo Macchiarini, who was hailed in 2011 after claiming to have performed the world’s first synthetic trachea transplants using stem cells, was given a suspended sentence by a court in Sweden where he was a surgeon.

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