This is a report of data obtained from children, beyond the neonatal stage, undergoing major corrective heart surgery, in which the thymus is frequently dissected and partially removed for aortic-arch ...

No convincing evidence exists which demonstrates that mammalian thymus cells can directly express their immunological activity. It has been assumed, therefore, that the immunological role of the ...

In three human recipients, five renal homografts were destroyed within a few minutes to hours after their revascularization in the new host. The kidneys, removed one to 54 days later, had cortical ...

The first homograft procedure was conducted on a patient at Osmania General Hospital on Tuesday. Homograft is a procedure where skin harvested from a brain-dead donor is used for grafting on another ...

Aortic root replacements with xenograft stentless bioprostheses have better durability than aortic homografts, and are associated with a lower rate of reoperaton and reduced progressive aortic valve ...

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) is in the process of setting up a homograft bank that will be second such bank to preserve aorta and pulmonary artery from the deceased donors in the state.