Objectives: Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tears are a common sporting injury and optimal graft choice is of concern for both patients surgeons. Few comparative studies have evaluated return to sport reinjury rates across types. The purpose the present study was evaluate reinjuries among hamstring tendon (HT), quadriceps (QT), patellar (BPTB) ACL reconstructions. Methods: Recreational competi...

The increasing use of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic transplantation for the treatment of solid malignancies has raised concern about the role of tumor cells contaminating the grafts. Minimal residual disease (MRD) in autologous grafts has became a dynamic and intensively studied field in oncology. This review discusses the current status of MRD in breast cancer autografts...

Cultured bovine corneal endothelial cells were subcultured onto feline corneas from which the native endothelium had been mechanically removed, and transplanted into cats via penetrating keratoplasty. Although the transplants remained thin and clear in the immediate postoperative period, correlative clinical and morphologic analysis disclosed evidence of a host response directed against the het...

HyPotHesis: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is magnetic resonance technology that is widely used in the study of the central nervous system and is emerging as a tool to non-invasively image peripheral nerves and assess the extent of nerve fiber regeneration. Given no definite consensus on the accepted autograft orientation during peripheral nerve injury repair, we compare outcomes between revers...

PRIMARY non function of islet allografts and chronic failure of intrahepatic islet autografts has been observed in large animals and humans, bringing into question the liver as the ideal site for islet transplantation. Our hypothesis is that inflammatory mediators released in the microenvironment at the transplant site might result in impaired islet engraftment. The L-arginine~ependent nitric o...