Sentences with word «autograft»

«ACL reconstructions may last longer with autografts.»

Specific focus is placed on developing a comprehensive understanding of autografts, allografts, synthetics, xenografts, and bone morphogenic proteins.

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).

Surgeons making reconstruction choices for an injured ACL can consider both bone - tendon - bone grafts and hamstring autografts as equally viable options in regards to healing, as reported in research at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL..

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

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].

«We have been using this minimally invasive autograft technology for more than a year, and it is well tolerated by our patients and easy to use by our team,» Litt said.

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.

With respect to techniques used for ACL reconstruction, patients who had a patellar tendon autograft had an increased chance of getting back to their activity.

Surgeons prefer autografts because they're real bone complete with stem cells that give rise to cartilage and bone cells to provide extra support for the new graft.

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.

«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.

Extensive and deep burn injuries require the excision of necrotic tissue before treatment with a meshed split - thickness skin autograft with the aim of covering a large area with a small amount of graftable material [1].

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In orthopedics, osteochondral autografts have been used with success.

The study examined 12 patients with an average age of 24 undergoing anatomic single - bundle ACL reconstruction, with six receiving hamstring autograft and six receiving a bone - tendon - bone graft.

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

«Eight of the 13 high - risk patients treated with the autograft system experienced much faster healing of their chronic wounds,» said Litt, who also serves as medical director of MU Health Care's burn and wound program.

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.

But despite efforts to find the optimal combination of tube material, growth factors, proteins and other helpers, nothing has come close to matching the autograft's success.

This is the closest anyone has ever been to equaling the efficacy of an autograft, and we did it with nothing more than a tube and the recruitment of the body's own immune system.»

The current standard of care, called an autograft, involves surgically removing a less important nerve, like the one running down the back of the calf, and grafting it into the damaged area.

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.

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.

However, those patients who had an allograft, failed at a rate more than three times higher than those reconstructed with an autograft.

There were four (8.3 %) autograft and 13 (26.5 %) allograft failures which required revision reconstruction.

Bottoni and his team, followed 99 patients who had used either an autograft or allograft for their ACL reconstruction.

Examples of such carrier systems that have been used with success with BMDMSC include: absorbable collagen sponge, absorbable gelatin sponge or powder, autograft cancellous bone, allograft cancellous bone, autograft and / or allograft corticocancellous bone, autologous bone marrow and any combination of these carriers (Photo 6).

Once the allograft, autograft or metal implant is inserted into the hollow, a stainless steel plate is applied, and the wrist is fused.

These various methods of limb - sparing surgery are cortical allografts, pasteurized or irradiated autografts, ulna transposition autografts and stereotactic.

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