Surgery
'New chance at life': Man gets face, hands in rare surgery
Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze.
Feb 3, 2021
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News tagged with graft
Pediatrics
Making microwaves safer for children
A 15-year research and advocacy effort to make microwave ovens safer has led to a change in national manufacturing standards that will make microwaves more difficult for young children to open, protecting them from the severe ...
Jan 20, 2021
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Surgery
New technique uses mortise and tenon joints to repair unstable shoulders
Orthopaedic surgery techniques for treatment of recurrent shoulder instability are effective, but prone to problems with nonunion of bone grafts held in place by screws alone. A new technique—borrowing a design used for ...
Nov 24, 2020
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Surgery
Repeat liver transplantation in children is justified
Repeat liver transplantation in children is justified on both medical and ethical grounds , according to potentially practice-changing research published online today by the Medical Journal of Australia.
Oct 19, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers use lab-grown tissue grafts for personalized joint replacement
October 14, 2020—The temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which forms the back portion of the lower jaw and connects your jaw to your skull, is an anatomically complex and highly loaded structure consisting of cartilage and bone. ...
Oct 14, 2020
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Cardiology
Prototype graft, designed to replace damaged heart vessels, shows promise in cell study
In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State University researchers reported promising preclinical findings for a prototype of a vascular graft designed as a replacement for a damaged or blocked coronary artery, which ...
Sep 29, 2020
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Medical research
Personalized mini-organs could offer treatment hope for children with intestinal failure
Pioneering scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) have grown human intestinal grafts using stem cells from patient tissue ...
Sep 8, 2020
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Immunology
Microgel immuno-acceptance method could improve pancreatic islet transplant success
Pancreatic islet transplants, which revive insulin production to treat type 1 diabetes, only last an average of three years.
Aug 31, 2020
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Medical research
Implanted neural stem cell grafts show functionality in spinal cord injuries
Using stem cells to restore lost functions due to spinal cord injury (SCI) has long been an ambition of scientists and doctors. Nearly 18,000 people in the United States suffer SCIs each year, with another 294,000 persons ...
Aug 5, 2020
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Medical research
Adipose-derived stem cells considerably improve fat graft retention in breast augmentation
Results of a clinical trial released today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine indicate that breast augmentation in patients treated with fat grafts enriched with autologous adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) had significantly ...
Jul 8, 2020
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