Tissue and Organ Harvesting

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Biomechanical Evaluation of Auricular Cartilage Autografts in Orbital Floor Defect Repair. 
  • A device to facilitate limbal stem cell procurement from eye bank donor tissue for keratolimbal allograft procedures. 
  • A reliable method for isolation of viable porcine islet cells. 
  • A virtual reality simulator for bone marrow harvest for pediatric transplant. 
  • Allocation of vascularized composite allografts: what is it? 
  • Alterations in intrahepatic hemodynamics of the harvested porcine liver. 
  • Anti-inflammatory signaling during ex vivo liver perfusion improves the preservation of pig liver grafts before transplantation. 
  • Arm complications after radial artery procurement for coronary bypass operation. 
  • Association between endoscopic vs open vein-graft harvesting and mortality, wound complications, and cardiovascular events in patients undergoing CABG surgery. 
  • CT volumetry is superior to nuclear renography for prediction of residual kidney function in living donors. 
  • Clinical predictors of major infections after cardiac surgery. 
  • Compulsory Organ Retrieval: Morally, But Not Socially, Justified. 
  • Conclusions about the effects on fertilization of time from aspiration to incubation and blood in the aspirate depend on the use of appropriate statistical techniques. 
  • Consensus recommendations for trabecular meshwork cell isolation, characterization and culture. 
  • Contralateral inflow occlusion to optimize graft volume and to reduce blood loss during parenchymal dissection in living-related liver transplantation. 
  • Diaphragmatic Hernias after Living Donor Hepatectomy: A Critical Reappraisal. 
  • Donation after cardiac death: the university of wisconsin experience with renal transplantation. 
  • Donor sites for pedicled skeletal grafts of the hand, wrist, and forearm. 
  • Efficacy and safety of edifoligide, an E2F transcription factor decoy, for prevention of vein graft failure following coronary artery bypass graft surgery: PREVENT IV: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery for neurovascular bypass. 
  • Endoscopic versus open saphenous vein harvest: the effect on postoperative outcomes. 
  • Extended applications of vascularized preauricular and helical rim flaps in reconstruction of nasal defects. 
  • Fatal Apophysomyces elegans infection transmitted by deceased donor renal allografts. 
  • Flexor tendon tissue engineering: acellularized and reseeded tendon constructs. 
  • Fluorescent viability stains overestimate chondrocyte viability in osteoarticular allografts. 
  • Great saphenous vein stump thrombosis after harvesting for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Hamstring graft preparation using a needleless suture loop. 
  • Hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: analysis of the learning curve in a training model in vivo. 
  • Horseshoe kidney transplantation. 
  • Impact of graft type on outcome in pediatric liver transplantation: a report From Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT). 
  • Improved detection of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by flow cytometric immunophenotyping-Effect of tissue disaggregation method. 
  • Intraocular Pressure and Big Bubble Diameter in Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty: An Ex-Vivo Microscope-Integrated OCT With Heads-Up Display Study. 
  • Killing versus totally disabling: a reply to critics. 
  • Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy increases the supply of living donor kidneys: a center-specific microeconomic analysis. 
  • Living-related lobar lung transplantation. 
  • Long-term results of endoscopic versus open saphenous vein harvest for lower extremity bypass. 
  • Long-term vascular, motor, and sensory donor site outcomes after ulnar forearm flap harvest. 
  • MR angiography and preoperative evaluation for laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. 
  • Metabolic and functional characterization of human adipose-derived stem cells in tissue engineering. 
  • Minimal ovarian hyperstimulation for in vitro fertilization using sequential clomiphene citrate and gonadotropin with or without the addition of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist. 
  • Non-invasive monitoring of tissue oxygenation during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. 
  • Optimal repair of the composite graft donor wound at the root of the helix. 
  • Organ trafficking: global solutions for a global problem. 
  • Prefabricated neck expanded skin flap with the superficial temporal vessels for facial resurfacing. 
  • Preparation techniques for the injection of human autologous cartilage: an ex vivo feasibility study. 
  • Randomized trial of filgrastim, sargramostim, or sequential sargramostim and filgrastim after myelosuppressive chemotherapy for the harvesting of peripheral-blood stem cells. 
  • Rationale and design of the Transendocardial Injection of Autologous Human Cells (bone marrow or mesenchymal) in Chronic Ischemic Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Heart Failure Secondary to Myocardial Infarction (TAC-HFT) trial: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of safety and efficacy. 
  • Reduction in wound morbidity rates following endoscopic saphenous vein harvest. 
  • Renal response following perioperative ketorolac analgesia in living kidney donation. 
  • Repletion of S-nitrosohemoglobin improves organ function and physiological status in swine after brain death. 
  • Right ventricular hypertrophy with early dysfunction: A proteomics study in a neonatal model. 
  • Screening for previous refractive surgery in eye bank corneas by using optical coherence tomography. 
  • Single-site laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy offers comparable perioperative outcomes to conventional laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy at a higher cost. 
  • Stem cell source and outcome after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in children and adolescents with acute leukemia. 
  • Technical and anatomical considerations of face harvest in face transplantation. 
  • The Preservation and Handling of Vein Grafts in Current Surgical Practice: Findings of a Survey Among Cardiovascular Surgeons of Top-Ranked US Hospitals. 
  • The general public's concerns about clinical risk in live kidney donation. 
  • The international position on laparoscopic liver surgery: The Louisville Statement, 2008. 
  • The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve block. 
  • The viability of cells obtained using the Reamer-Irrigator-Aspirator system and in bone graft from the iliac crest. 
  • Use of the descending lateral femoral circumflex artery and vein for vascular grafting: a better alternative to an arteriovenous loop. 
  • What makes killing wrong? 
  • [Facial allograft transplantation: fiction or reality? Surgical techniques in a fresh human cadaver model]. 
  • [The infragluteal perforator flap]. 
  • [The use of fillet flaps in upper extremity and shoulder reconstruction]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Parikh, Suhag H., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society