«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.
Not exact matches
«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.
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 stra
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 stra
using this strategy.
Bottoni and his team, followed 99 patients who had
used either an
autograft or allograft for their ACL reconstruction.
In orthopedics, osteochondral
autografts have been
used with success.
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).