Sentences with phrase «of autografts»

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

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.

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.»

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).

«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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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].

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).

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