Mandibular Block Autografts for Alveolar Ridge Augmentation Michael A. Pikos, DDS Coastal Jaw Surgery, 2711 Tampa Road, Palm Harbor, FL 34684, USA Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Miami, 1611 N.W. 12th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136, USA Ohio State University, 305 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43218-2357, USA College of Dental Medicine, Nova Southea...

BACKGROUND After pulmonary autograft replacement of the aortic valve and root, the pulmonary artery (PA) wall is subjected to higher pressures. Concern exists that this may lead to structural and functional changes in the implanted autograft and subsequent aortic root dilatation and neoaortic regurgitation. We therefore assessed root dimensions and neoaortic regurgitation, morphological structu...

Three-dimensional optical coherence tomography (3D-OCT) is used to evaluate the structure and pathology of regenerating mouse skeletal muscle autografts for the first time. The death of myofibers with associated inflammation and subsequent new muscle formation in this graft model represents key features of necrosis and inflammation in the human disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We perform 3D...

BACKGROUND Following the release of the initial presentation of filgrastim (granulocyte colony-stimulating factor), several biosimilars have been developed worldwide. OBJECTIVE To study the efficacy of a Mexican biosimilar granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in a single transplant center. METHODS In a group of 19 consecutive patients with multiple sclerosis given autografts, we employed g...

Autologous mosaicplasty has been widely used for the treatment of focal, full-thickness, articular cartilage lesions of the knee and ankle joints. Commonly, the autografts are harvested from non-weight-bearing areas of the knee joint, leading to associated donor-site morbidity and representing a considerable disadvantage. This Technical Note presents a mosaicplasty procedure for harvesting auto...

We compared growth in vascularised allograft transplants, autografts and in non-operated physes in rabbits immunosuppressed with cyclosporin A and in non-immunosuppressed animals. Molecular haplotyping was undertaken before operation to ensure allogenicity. Postoperative bone scans and fluorochrome labelling were used to confirm physeal vascularity. The animals were killed at three or five week...

called homografts. In the literature confusion exists with the use of terms: homografts, autografts, xenografts and allografts in cardiac surgery. Specifically, with the terms homograft and/or autograft many surgeons referred to the grafts coming from the patient himself (eg the transposition of the pulmonary valve to the aortic position – Ross procedure), while allograft was called the graft d...

Seventy one patients underwent bone marrow transplantation for aplastic anaemia or haematological malignancy, 39 as allografts and 32 as autografts. All patients who were seronegative to cytomegalovirus received blood product support exclusively from seronegative community blood donors; seropositive patients received unscreened products. In no patients was there any attempt to reduce cytomegalo...