Sentences with phrase «donor tissue»

«Shortages of donor corneas and rejection of donor tissue do occur, which can result in permanent vision loss,» Dr. Funderburgh said.

A common method of implanting donor tissue into the femur part of the hip joint is to use multiple small, cylinder - shaped plugs of bone and cartilage to fill in a damaged area.

Biologic joint restoration using donor tissue instead of traditional metal and plastic may be an option for active patients with joint defects.

Eventually, Götherström and her colleagues retransplanted Olivia with more MSCs from the same donor tissue.

However, important questions, such as how long donor tissue can survive in the thymus, remain to be answered before human trials begin.

It might one day lead to clinical use, in which patients would receive an injection of donor tissue in the thymus as well as a transplant.

Professor Anne Dickinson has spent 20 years working to understand how we prevent the body rejecting donor tissue such as bone marrow.

Clinical trial research is also ongoing to evaluate the safety of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation — using cells taken from healthy donor tissue — for HIV - infected patients with blood cancers.

The current popularity of LASIK corrective eye surgery is expected to substantially reduce the availability of donor tissue because the procedure alters the cornea in a way that makes it unsuitable for transplantation.»

Unfortunately, corneal transplants are rarely performed in canine patients with CED due to the expense of the surgery and follow - up care, relatively high risk of complications, and lack of appropriate donor tissue.

In selecting between two patients requiring a kidney transplant from one live donor, for example, the patient who exhibits the lower immunosuppressive reaction to the donor tissue might be judged the more suitable for the transplant.

Intestinal transplant is an option, but donor tissue is in short supply and the procedure has high mortality rates.

Some researchers believe the infused cells simply provide enough foreign matter to desensitize the recipient's immune system to the donor tissue.

The skin bank is part of the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria and was set up following a request from surgeons two years ago.

Donor tissues were obtained from Saint Louis University Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine and Mid-American Transplant Services from St. Louis and University Health Network.

To obtain a viable donor of a Descemet membrane endothelium disc, we modified the Descemet membrane stripping technique and monitored the percentage of endothelial damage to the donor tissue preparation.

Recent news of an impending clinical cell transplantation trial in Parkinson's disease using parthenogenetic stem cells as a source of donor tissue have raised hopes in the patient community and sparked discussion in the research community.