Sentences with phrase «skin graft treatments»

A victim may require immediate hospitalization and multiple surgeries and skin graft treatments to restore form and function to the affected part or parts of the body.

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The treatment — a whole - body graft of genetically modified stem cells — is the most ambitious attempt yet to treat a severe form of epidermolysis bullosa (EB), an often - fatal group of conditions that cause skin to blister and tear off at the slightest touch.
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.
The first group of stories is related to adult stem cells (although this is not explicitly stated or explained): the discovery of stem cells during WWII, the amazing rescue of two boys in the early 1980s using stem cell - based skin grafts, and the present - day treatment of blind patients in a stem cell clinic in India.
Ranging from heartworm treatment, amputations, stab wounds, eye removals, skin grafting, tumor removals, arrow and gun shot wounds, complicated illnesses and injuries, skin treatments, and dental work.
After several surgeries, including a complicated and creative skin graft, and weeks of treatment, she survived — though minus a couple of her nine lives.
Treatment may require debriding (trimming) the devitalized tissue, then suturing the wound with drains in place; or the defect may be large enough to require skin grafting or healing by second intention (granulating in over a long period of time).
Victims may require counseling, home care, rehabilitation, skin grafts, or other costly treatments.
The victims of biting dogs or other attacking animals may need dog bite treatment that includes reconstructive surgery, skin grafting, and extensive therapy.
Medical treatments such as skin grafting and wound disinfection are common, and deep burns can result in immense pain.
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Nearly half of hospitalized dog bite victims required a skin infection treatment and 58 percent needed stitches, skin grafts, wound debridement or other similar procedure.
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