Sentences with phrase «in autograft»

In autograft the tumor site is removed from the leg and then treated with a high dose of radiation to «kill» the tumor.

Or, at least, that's how it should work — unlike in an autograft, stem cells don't always turn into the needed bone or cartilage because of the scaffolds» material makeup.

Not exact matches

This may entail making small holes in the bone to allow new cartilage to grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage cells from the knee and then having them grown in a lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).

In the study, Litt's team at MU Health Care used a recently developed autograft harvesting system to care for 13 patients with various types of chronic wounds.

Using an approach developed at Maisonneuve - Rosemont, consisting of an autograft to reduce tumour mass followed by a family allograft three to four months later to clean the bone marrow of myeloma cells with immune cells from a family donor (immunotherapy), the study resulted in a total cure rate of 41 %, a record level using this strategy.

Overall, the autograft strategy followed by allograft resulted in relapse - free survival rates of 20 - 25 % in the long term.

The idea is, a patient would come in with a nasty broken bone — say, a shattered jaw — and instead of going through painful autograft surgeries or waiting for a custom scaffold to be manufactured, he or she could be x-rayed and a 3D - printed hyperelastic bone scaffold could be printed that same day.

The most common option is an autograft, where a piece of bone is taken from a patient's own body, usually from a hip or a rib, and implanted where it's needed elsewhere in that same patient's skeleton.

«Our study results highlight that in a young athletic population, allografts (tissue harvested from a donor) fail more frequently than using autografts (tissue harvested from the patient),» said Craig R. Bottoni, MD, lead author from Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In orthopedics, osteochondral autografts have been used with success.

A new study highlights the potential for meshed autografts and adipose stem cell - laden hydrogels in wound healing in an animal model of human burn injuries

Now, a team led by Robert J. Christy (United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA) has assessed a combination of meshed autografts and ASC - laden hydrogels to promote wound healing in a porcine model [4].