Breast Implants - Augmentation

Breast implants are medical devices that are used to augment breast size or to reconstruct the breast following mastectomy or to correct a congenital abnormality. Breast implants consist of a silico...

Cytomegalovirus CMV Vaccines

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus that persists indefinitely after primary infection. CMV is the most common opportunistic infection after solid organ transplantation. The incidence...

Return to active duty not likely after allograft treatment for knee defect

(American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine) Treatment of large cartilage knee defects with an allograft osteoarticular transplant may not allow some military personnel to return to full active...

Allograft Treatment For Knee Defect Tends To Prevent Return To Active Duty

Treatment of large cartilage knee defects with an allograft osteoarticular transplant (OATS) may not allow some military personnel to return to full active duty status, say researchers presenting thei...

OATS treatment for knee defects may not allow military patients to return to full duty, say researchers

Treatment of large cartilage knee defects with an allograft osteoarticular transplant may not allow some military personnel to return to full active duty status, say researchers presenting their work...

MiMedx reports EpiFix allograft positive results

MiMedx Group has reported positive results from a study of its EpiFix, a dehydrated human amniotic membrane allograft, designed as a treatment for diabetic neurovascular foot ulcers.

Pre-Sutured Tendon From LifeNet Health Increases Surgeon Efficiency, Reduces Operation Room Time

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeNet Health, a leading allograft bio-implant company, will nationally launch the Allograft GraftLink® pre-sutured tendon at the American Aca...

PRMA Center for Advanced Breast Reconstruction to hold live online Breast Reconstruction Q&A

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) March 07, 2013 Breast reconstruction surgeons, Dr Gary Arishita and Dr Oscar Ochoa, of PRMA Plastic Surgery in San Antonio will answer your breast cancer reconstruction qu...

This Regenerative Nerve Company's Growth Continues Into New Year

By Tedra DeSue:Since I began covering AxoGen (AXGN.OB) at the beginning of the year, I've been intrigued by the strides it has made in the regenerative nerve space. As more surgeons choose the cutting...

Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy

A fact sheet that describes breast reconstruction after mastectomy, including surgical options, follow-up care, and breast cancer screening after reconstruction.

Unicondylar osteoarticular allograft reconstruction of the distal femur in a patient with a traumatic osteoaticular defect of the lateral femoral condyle.

PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to report the clinical results for a patient with a post-traumatic osteoarticular defect of the lateral femoral condyle treated with unicondylar osteoarticular...

Proximal humerus reconstruction after tumour resection: biological versus endoprosthetic reconstruction.

The purpose of this study was to compare the outcome, complications and survival of the three most commonly used surgical reconstructions of the proximal humerus after transarticular tumour resection....

Reconstruction of posterior glenoid deficiency using distal tibial osteoarticular allograft.

Posterior shoulder instability with glenoid deficiency is a rare entity and its surgical treatment is challenging. Reconstructive techniques have focused on extra-articular structural bone transfer th...

Distal Femoral Osteoarticular Allografts: Long-term Survival, But Frequent Complications.

BACKGROUND: Complications are frequent with osteoarticular allografts, and their long-term survivorship in the distal femur is unclear. Thus, the benefits of osteoarticular allografting remain controv...

Functional outcome of en bloc resection and osteoarticular allograft reconstruction with locking compression plate for giant cell tumor of the distal radius.

BACKGROUND: Giant cell tumors of the distal radius at Campanacci grade III are particularly challenging to treat. We have treated 15 cases of giant cell tumor of the distal radius by en bloc excision...