The famous star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was recruited to Karolinska hospital and institute in 2010.  He had successfully performed transplantations of tracheas from dead donors to living patients and his method was going to revolutionize the medical field. But there was a catch.  This is a story of deceit, science fiction and a naked emperor.

Video clips of Christoper Lyles' (left video) and Yesim Cetir's (right video) tracheas, 5:32 into the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pYotdvrfY

Book “Macchariniaffären: Sanningar och lögner på Karolinska” by Bosse Lindqvist, published in 2018. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20160126234638/http://www.svt.se/svts/article2970933.svt/binary/Lancet%202011.pdf Article The Lancet 2011

“The Macchiarini case” - a summary in english 

https://forbetterscience.com/2016/11/02/claudias-trachea/

https://news.ki.se/sites/default/files/migrate/investigation_of_cv.pdf

https://forbetterscience.com/2017/11/07/how-trachea-transplanters-tricked-andemariam-beyene-to-sacrifice-himself-for-a-lancet-paper/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/university-declines-sanction-doctor-who-referred-patient-deadly-transplant#:~:text=The%20doctor%20who%20referred%20a,his%20own%20stem%20cells%2C%20failed.

Chris Lyles operation

http://www.circare.org/info/pm/Lyles%20Transplant%20Final%20Draft%20for%20Release%20Harvard%20Apparatus%20Nov%2023,%202011.mp4

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/health/research/christopher-lyles-got-synthetic-trachea-dies-at-30.html?_r=1

Beyene’s broncoscopy 2 months post surgery

https://fr-fr.facebook.com/svtdokumentar/videos/10153469082990945/

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