Christopher Lyles, whose cancerous windpipe was swapped in November for a synthetic one seeded with his own cells in only the second operation of its kind, died on Monday in a Baltimore hospital. He was 30 and lived in Abingdon, Md.
His death was announced by his family on the Web site of HelpHopeLive, an organization that helps patients and families facing transplantation or dealing with catastrophic injury. The family did not disclose the cause of death.
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a surgeon and a leader in the field of tissue engineering who performed the windpipe surgery on Mr. Lyles in
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