BACKGROUND The nature of chronic endothelial cell loss in homologous corneal grafts is still unclear. Possible causes are cell migration to the recipient bed and chronic subclinical immune reaction. OBJECTIVES To compare endothelial cell loss after autologous rotational keratoplasty and homologous keratoplasty and present the clinical outcome of patients after rotational keratoplasty. METHO...

Autologous bone marrow transplants (BMTs) can repopulate the hematologic system of patients treated with marrow-ablative chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. However, treatment of the bone marrow graft to eliminate residual tumor cells prior to reinfusion can delay the return of peripheral blood elements, presumably from damage to or loss of hematopoietic stem cells responsible for hematologic rec...

Digital nerve injuries are common; injuries of the common digital nerves are less frequent than those involving the proper digital nerves. Traditional techniques used to reconstruct peripheral nerves are: direct suture, autologous nerve grafts, autologous vein grafts, vascularised nerve graft and alloplastic nerve grafts. Autologous nerve grafts remain the most common conduits for segmental def...

BACKGROUND To limit epidural fibrosis and prevent scar formation/nerve tethering that may contribute to chronic postoperative pain; some surgeons have utilized epidural autologous fat grafts following lumbar microdiscectomy. METHODS We investigated the correlation between post-microdiscectomy epidural scarring [including select magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies] and clinical outcomes i...

Vascular diseases are increasing health problems affecting > 25 million individuals in westernized societies. Such patients could benefit from transplantation of tissue-engineered vascular grafts using autologous cells. One challenge that has limited this development is the need for cell isolation, and risks associated with ex vivo expanded stem cells. Here we demonstrate a novel approach to ge...

Importance Autologous fat transplantation for breast augmentation has become a standard technique and is widely applied. The major weak point that long time results, especially sudies about term volumetric survival of the grafts have not been available yet. Observations We compared literature volume after transplantation, including recent findings six years transfer to breast, showing stable re...

Background: Abdominal wall injuries are commonly encountered in veterinary medicine and may lead to significant complications if not appropriately treated. Different types of grafts, including autologous, xenogeneic, biologic or non-biologic composite widely used ensure adequate tissue repair prevent recurrence cases hernia. However, identifying the most suitable graft for each case is particul...

Autologous fat transfer offers many qualities of a ideal soft tissue filler. Main advantages of fat grafting ensue from the fact that the lipoaspirate tissue is an abundant source of regenerative pluripotential cells. However, the reported rates of fat cell survival vary greatly in the medical literature (10-90%). Different techniques of harvesting, processing, and reinjecting the fat cells are...

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...

OBJECTIVE To compare the reabsorption characteristics of fresh septal cartilage autografts, preserved homografts, and preserved autografts in the nasal dorsum of rabbits. METHODS Rabbit nasal dorsum cartilage grafts were placed in 3 groups. The first group used fresh autologous cartilage; the second group, alcohol-preserved homologous cartilage; and the third group, alcohol-preserved autologo...