«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.
However, those patients who had an allograft, failed at a rate more than three times higher than those reconstructed
with an autograft.
Not exact matches
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 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.»
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.
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).
In
autograft the tumor site is removed from the leg and then treated
with a high dose of radiation to «kill» the tumor.