Transplant medicine through the years: a brief timeline
April is National Donate Life month, when people come together to raise awareness about organ donation and encourage others to register themselves as donors. Donate Life Month is in its 11th year, but organ donation itself dates back much further. In fact, in ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese cultures there are legends of transplants performed by gods and healers, proving that the concept of organ donation is at least thousands of years old. Here’s a quick look at how organ transplantation has progressed over the years:
As early as 800 B.C., Indian healers were believed to be grafting skin—technically, the largest h...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 15, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tripp Underwood Tags: All posts hand transplant heart transplant kidney transplant Liver transplant multivisceral transplant Pediatric Transplant Center (PTC) Source Type: news
Lab-grown vaginas successfully implanted
Conclusion
This small case series reports the apparent success of using tissue engineering techniques to develop a vagina for reconstruction in four teenage girls who had an absent vagina from birth. All of these girls had the rare condition Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKHS), where the vagina and uterus do not develop properly.
The technique used tissue samples biopsied from the girls' own vulva, which were then developed in the laboratory to make a 3D structure for reconstruction. It was hoped that by using this approach they might avoid some of the problems seen with the various types of graft tissue previ...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 11, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Source Type: news
United States Food and Drug Administration Grants an Investigational Device Exemption for Compassionate Use of ReCell
The IDE granted by the US FDA allows ReCell to be evaluated clinically as an investigational device in subjects with life-threatening conditions requiring extensive skin grafting
ReCell will be used to augment skin grafting for patients who have insuffi... Devices, Regenerative Medicine, FDAAvita Medical, ReCell, Spray-on Skin (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - April 10, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Integra LifeSciences Launches Integra(R) Wound Matrix (Thin)
Expands Skin and Wound Product Line
PLAINSBORO, N.J., March 25, 2014 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (IART) today announced the expansion of its skin and wound product line with the introduction of ... Devices, Wound Care, Product LaunchIntegra LifeSciences, Wound Matrix, skin graft (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - March 25, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
