Sentences with phrase «for skin grafts»

And amidst revelations to one another, Lamb gets to go ziplining and has her introduction to alcohol, which may not be wise to mix with the prescription pain pills she is frequently taking for her skin grafts.

According to Goss, this raised the survival rate to 85 per cent for heart and islet transplants, where tolerance is easier to obtain than for skin grafts.

It makes a good scaffold for skin grafts or engineered tissue.

By now ensconced in a hospital bed in his living room and waiting for skin grafts to heal, Cohen appealed to the journal: «I can't walk, I'm totally available.

The next two months involved a half - dozen surgeries to remove dead skin and debris from the jagged wound where his leg had been severed, four inches below the knee; to take skin from his thigh for skin grafts; to build up the sound flesh around the ends of his bones and then stretch it for a strong, tight seal over the stump.

Not exact matches

A second question might be the following: Will the new group of reconciled persons in each place be a kind of «skin graft» growing over old divisions, or will it be simply an interim, experimental organization for developing and enhancing new relationships among still separated bodies?

As theologians and pastors we need to press toward formulating and articulating the ideas needed for the support of practical tasks: in this case the task of providing skin - grafts of civility for ravaged human societies.

What might be involved if religious communities were to cooperate with others of good will to broker enclaves of spiritual civility, dialogical skin grafts in our ravaged neighborhoods of hate speech, misunderstanding and mistrust, provisional gatherings of our many persuasion, that could model a search for the good in common?

TED hose compression stockings are not recommended for patients who have a leg condition like dermatitis, immediate post-op vein litigation, gangrene, or those who have recently had a skin graft.

Immediate applications for the oxygen - sensing bandage include monitoring patients with a risk of developing ischemic (restricted blood supply) conditions, postoperative monitoring of skin grafts or flaps, and burn - depth determination as a guide for surgical debridement — the removal of dead or damaged tissue from the body.

The new technology, which Litt's team did not develop, was used to harvest only the top layer of skin for much smaller, consistently sized donor grafts.

Then they temporarily covered Nelson's face with cadaver skin to keep bacteria out and prepare the wound for permanent grafts.

The inflammation set the stage for bad scarring, but the cadaver skin also triggered the blood vessel growth needed to support grafts with skin taken from his chest and arms.

«Surgeons use a variety of techniques to grow skin for tissue expansion procedures designed to grow skin in one region of the body so that it can be auto - grafted on to another site [sometimes used for burn victims],» said Guy German, assistant professor of biomedical engineering within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.

For example: Why can a surgeon successfully graft skin or other tissue from one part of the body to another but not from one individual to another, except in the case of grafts between identical twins?

Such wounds can be hard to treat, because in severe cases there might not be enough healthy skin on the patient to harvest or culture for a graft.

The skin substitute is also being used to make customized grafts for burn victims and for children who can't handle exposure to UV light without risking cancer.

Grafting skin to cover burn wounds is also important for preventing infections, which can be a source of complications.

Before and three months after fat grafting, samples of skin from the treated area were obtained for in - depth examination, including electron microscopy for ultrastructural - level detail.

In fact, the new approach is similar to an established treatment for severe burns, in which sheets of healthy skin are grown from a patient's own cells and grafted over wounds.

As well as the potential to produce pigment - correct skin grafts, the team's 3D bioprinting method could also be used to develop skin constructs for toxicology testing and fundamental cell biology research.

When there is insufficient of the patient's own skin to graft all the burned areas rapidly, the surgeons have to wait for these areas to heal and then take another skin graft from them.

However, the same mechanism may interfere with healing in situations in which foreign material is introduced, for example when synthetics are grafted to skin for dermal repair.

«The gold standard for these patients is to conduct additional surgeries or skin grafts to release «locked» tissue so it can flex and stretch again,» said Dr. Bailey.

«Ultimately, I hope to prove that the use of lasers along with early skin grafts can dramatically reduce the development of contractures and the need for additional surgeries,» said Dr. Bailey.

This technology has been developed from a skin explant model for predicting a potentially serious complication of bone marrow transplantation, «graft versus host» disease — a common complication following the transplant.

For example, he says, researchers studying infertility have grafted human testis and ovary cells under the skin of animals in an effort to better understand their development.

The team then ran the graft through a mesher that cut holes in the graft skin and allowed for expansion of the graft to about four times its original size.

For her PhD project, Dew is developing experimental and computational models to look for ways to accelerate blood vessel growth in skin grafFor her PhD project, Dew is developing experimental and computational models to look for ways to accelerate blood vessel growth in skin graffor ways to accelerate blood vessel growth in skin grafts.

In addition to growing new skin for burn victims, cells from hair follicles could potentially be used to engineer vascular grafts and possibly regenerate cardiac tissues for patients with heart problems.

In 2006, Michele De Luca, MD, from the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy and colleagues reported in Nature Medicine on introducing working copies of LAMB3 aboard retroviruses into skin stem cells sampled from a man with JEB, fashioning grafts patched onto nine small areas of his legs.

Skin reconstructs can also be grafted onto immunodeficienct mice for long - term observation.

People have also used this therapy for burns, amputation injuries, skin grafts and infected wounds.

Even the bloodiest scene in the movie, involving the use of a skin grafting machine for torture, goes by too quickly.

«Whether or not her hair grows back or she requires skin grafting, secondary bacterial infections of the skin, all of that stuff that she is still wide open for, we don't know yet.»

Dan is not allowed to use his back legs for at least two weeks after surgery, to allow the skin grafts to adhere to his stumps.

Dan has finished all of his skin grafts at Capital Veterinary Specialists and is being fitted for his prosthetic leg.

They are adding proteins, which are key to maintaining the skin; increasing the number of cells to analyze exposure to sunlight; and adding vasculature (blood vessels), which can be used for regenerative medicine and for creating skin grafts.

This might be a stretch — but if you can print a ball bearing — why wouldn't you be able to print a skin graft for a burn victim or build a new liver for transplant?

She was rushed to Illinois Masonic Medical Center for medical attention where she was hospitalized and underwent skin grafts.

The roofer fell through a fragile roof at a large industrial building, resulting in the need for six operations including a large skin graft to his back.

She sustained numerous fractures to her face and ankle; required multiple surgeries, including an open reduction internal fixation to the left ankle, an open reeducation procedure for her nasal septal fracture, as well as skin grafts for her ankle.

Where do you get the money to pay for expensive skin grafts?

Many victims of these crashes suffer third - degree burns that leave the victims scarred and disfigured for life — even after multiple skin graft surgeries.

Skin grafting may be another treatment for patients suffering large scale skin infection, as well as treatment in a hospital burn uSkin grafting may be another treatment for patients suffering large scale skin infection, as well as treatment in a hospital burn uskin infection, as well as treatment in a hospital burn unit.

Our client was a young boy who was to undergo a skin harvest from his scalp for grafting of skin to his feet, related to burns he had sustained.