In our practice, a commitment to autologous access began even before the publication of the DOQI guidelines. Early in our experience, prosthetic grafts were generally the third line of intervention ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A new surgical technique devised by MIT researchers could allow prosthetic limbs to feel much more like natural limbs. Through coordination of the patient's prosthetic limb, existing ...

Bacterial adherence to ocular prosthetic devices has been well established in the ophthalmic literature, and any exposure of intracorneal prosthetic devices to the ocular surface should be permanently ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Approximately 40% of patients with uveal melanoma who received high-dose radiotherapy after enucleation ...

Various groups have already developed "thought-controlled" prosthetic hands, that respond to nerve impulses in the user's residual arm stump. A new system could make such hands easier than ever to use ...

Modern prostheses have come a long way from their hand hook and pegleg predecessors. Although they look a lot more like the real thing, they are still lacking in the natural feel department. To ...

Vascular grafts are used in coronary bypass surgery and aortic aneurysm correction, and involve either synthetic vascular prostheses or autologous blood vessel grafts. Despite a large amount of ...

Dundee, U.K.'s Vascular Flow Technologies has raised £10 million ($14.25 million) in support of its technology to restore natural blood flow through prosthetic vascular grafts, such as hemodialysis ...

Three male amputees from Austria have successfully received robotic hands as a replacement for their injured hands. These men were the first to have doctors perform bionic hand reconstruction on ...