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Implants help humans in many ways and are welcome to improve life conditions for people desiring reconstructions or corrections of their human tissue as well as information transmitting. Medical progress presents a growing number of medical devices to be implanted in human bodies. There are estimated more than 8.500 different implants known, to be incorporated in human bodies and this number is still growing.
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Genetically Modified Porcine-to-Human Cardiac Xenotransplantation
A 57-year-old man with nonischemic cardiomyopathy who was dependent on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and was not a candidate for standard therapeutics, including a traditional allograft, received a heart from a genetically modified pig source animal that had 10 individual gene edits. Sudden diastolic thickening and failure of the xenograft occurred on day 49…
Poietis Automates the Manufacturing of Biological Tissue
While the manufacturing of biological tissue meets major societal demands, it also faces significant challenges related to process standardization and scaling up. With these challenges in mind, the French start-up Poietis has developed the Next Generation Bioprinting (NGB) platform to achieve 4D bioprinting of biological tissue in a faster, more affordable and more functional way. Fabien Guillemot: First of all,…
Necessity of routine x-rays after osteosynthesis
Routine x-rays after the osteosynthesis of distal radius and ankle fractures – a prospective randomized controlled trial on the necessity of routine imaging CONCLUSION: In this study, routine postoperative radiographs after osteosynthesis of distal radius and ankle fractures did not improve patient care when standardized intraoperative radiographs were obtained. Author(s) Source Oehme F, Kremo V, van…