Definition & Meaning | English word AUTOGRAFTS

Definitions of AUTOGRAFTS

1. plural of autograft.

Examples of Using AUTOGRAFTS in a Sentence

• This seminal study demonstrated that engrafted bone marrow stem cells contribute to long-term hematopoiesis and also that contaminating tumor cells in autografts can cause relapse.
• Hamstring autografts are made with the semitendinosus tendon, either alone or accompanied by the gracilis tendon for a stronger graft.
• However, (vascularised) autografts (fascia lata, muscle or omentum majus) are preferred in irradiated or severely infected defects.
• A drawback of this method is that it can frequently result in a "two-valve" diseased heart, as almost all autografts are impaired by progressive dilatation in the long term, and the pulmonary valve prosthesis, often a conventional cryopreserved homograft, is subject to the same rate of degeneration as all biological valves.
• Allografting with nonmyeloablative conditioning following cytoreductive autografts for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.

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