Doctors have cured a baby boy of liver disease with a pioneering medical technique that involved injecting deep frozen liver cells into the boy's abdomen, the BBC reports.
Scientists from King's College Hospital treated eight-month-old Iyaad Syed by giving him a single injection of human liver cells which had been coated in a special chemical to prevent Iyaad's body from rejecting them.
"This is the first time this treatment has been used to treat a child with acute liver failure," liver specialist professor Anil Dhawan told the BBC.
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"It's only a few months back when I first saw this child who was so sick, requiring support on dialysis and a breathing machine.”
But doctors have warned the treatment's success maybe be a one-off. They say a large clinical trial needs to be undertaken to see whether the technique will work on other failed liver patients.
