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In 2008, Macchiarini, now 65, made headlines after creating a new airway for a young woman from Barcelona, Claudia Castillo. Per The Guardian, his method was to chemically strip windpipe cells from a deceased donor and then seed the bare scaffold with stem cells taken from Castillo’s bone marrow. The development was widely hailed a medical success and game-changer.
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Just a few years later, in 2011, he was working at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The university is widely considered one of the world’s finest medical centres, where professors are on the panel for selecting winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine. According to The Guardian, Macchiarini then developed another technique where he had plastic scaffolds made to order instead of stripping cells from donors while at the institute. Macchiarini quickly joined the ranks of celebrity doctors and was sometimes hailed as a “miracle worker”.
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Benita Alexander was a news producer for NBC who met Macchiarini while working on a piece on his medical breakthroughs – and fell in love. According to People, Alexander said the doctor spoiled her with trips to Italy, rose petals and love notes.
He proposed in 2013 but, two years later, she learnt that he was still married and the wedding he claimed he was planning was all a farce. Per Vanity Fair, the doctor told her that their wedding would include guests such as Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and the Clintons.In 2014, The New York Times published an exposé claiming that Macchiarini was conducting medical experiments that were leaving a trail of dying patients. The publication relied on whistle-blowers who revealed that his actions resulted in a number of misconduct allegations.
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The so-called regenerating windpipes invented by Macchiarini were given to around 17 known patients. Castillo, the woman who made Macchiarini famous, was largely hailed as the face of his medical influence. According to multiple sources, however, Castillo in fact battled multiple complications after the procedure. Additionally, multiple people who received the windpipe from Macchiarini reportedly died.
The doctor was fired from the Karolinska Institute and faced immense backlash from the medical fraternity and the public alike after more information on his procedures were revealed.
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Facing the law
Per Science magazine, in 2023, Macchiarini was found guilty of gross assault against three of his patients and sentenced to two years and six months in prison by an appeal court in Stockholm. The decision came off the back of a Swedish court finding the doctor guilty of bodily harm in two cases and giving him a suspended sentence. Both Macchiarini and the prosecution appealed the ruling.
Despite the global condemnation and deaths, Macchiarini and his lawyers said he had no intention to harm patients, and only wanted to help those who had run out of options. Macchiarini also argued that his peers never objected. “In the operating room we were 20, 25 people. What surprises me is, why I am here alone,” Science quoted him as saying.
Per the publication, Macchiarini said the court believed he knew of the potential risk and “performed the surgeries anyway”. Macchiarini’s legal team will appeal the verdict, explaining that they will also question whether the sentence is reasonable, given the incidents happened more than 10 years ago.
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