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[Gt1956]

Wow, cadaver tissue, I didn't know they could do that.
Cool, must be a bit surreal. Cool though.

Yep, as a matter of fact, a lot of grafts are made from cadaver tissue and Coloplast even has a trademarked name for their cadaver tissue graft product. It's not fresh from the cadaver though. It's been denatured and processed first. This isn't unusual as they use cadaver skin for burn victims and they process that "product" by perforating it so it can be expanded over large areas of a burn.

I believe that we're living in a pretty good age of medicine. My older brother had a son that was only a few years younger than me. Kid was type 1 from a very young age. Had a kidney transplant & it was starting to fail. He died suddenly I think about 15 years ago. I ended up type 2, dove in head first on my glucose control. Use pills & insulin, A1C shows that my control is quite good. Talked to my brother about my progress. The nephew died before the home glucose tests really got going. As I thought about this. I realized just how much 1 part of healthcare has changed in just a short time. Made me sad to see that he had missed out on the new technology.
I see a similar thing amongst my male relatives. Seems that most had died around 75 years old. Right now I have 3 that have blown past that age.
Even the new covid vaccine. To get several to market in less than a year seems like a miracle from my point of view.

[Waynetho]

Wow, cadaver tissue, I didn't know they could do that.
Cool, must be a bit surreal. Cool though.

Yep, as a matter of fact, a lot of grafts are made from cadaver tissue and Coloplast even has a trademarked name for their cadaver tissue graft product. It's not fresh from the cadaver though. It's been denatured and processed first. This isn't unusual as they use cadaver skin for burn victims and they process that "product" by perforating it so it can be expanded over large areas of a burn.

I believe that we're living in a pretty good age of medicine. My older brother had a son that was only a few years younger than me. Kid was type 1 from a very young age. Had a kidney transplant & it was starting to fail. He died suddenly I think about 15 years ago. I ended up type 2, dove in head first on my glucose control. Use pills & insulin, A1C shows that my control is quite good. Talked to my brother about my progress. The nephew died before the home glucose tests really got going. As I thought about this. I realized just how much 1 part of healthcare has changed in just a short time. Made me sad to see that he had missed out on the new technology.
I see a similar thing amongst my male relatives. Seems that most had died around 75 years old. Right now I have 3 that have blown past that age.
Even the new covid vaccine. To get several to market in less than a year seems like a miracle from my point of view.

As a matter of fact, I've been reading about a new penile transplant process that takes a cadaver penis and "denatures" it (as mentioned in my previous comment by flushing out all of the DNA and cells, leaving only a scaffold of tissue without any genetic material, to which they add modified host body cells and allow them to grow. This eventually fills in the penis "SCAFFOLD" with the appropriate tissues of the penis after which it can be transplanted to the host.

This process is currently in animal testing and they don't have approval to perform the process for humans yet but the article I read stated that the lab researchers had created several viable human penises via this process that COULD in theory have been transplanted into a patient. As for the animal testing, I believe it was with rabbits (IIRC), and the test subjects had subsequently fathered offspring after the transplants.

[Gt1956]

Yep, as a matter of fact, a lot of grafts are made from cadaver tissue and Coloplast even has a trademarked name for their cadaver tissue graft product. It's not fresh from the cadaver though. It's been denatured and processed first. This isn't unusual as they use cadaver skin for burn victims and they process that "product" by perforating it so it can be expanded over large areas of a burn.

I believe that we're living in a pretty good age of medicine. My older brother had a son that was only a few years younger than me. Kid was type 1 from a very young age. Had a kidney transplant & it was starting to fail. He died suddenly I think about 15 years ago. I ended up type 2, dove in head first on my glucose control. Use pills & insulin, A1C shows that my control is quite good. Talked to my brother about my progress. The nephew died before the home glucose tests really got going. As I thought about this. I realized just how much 1 part of healthcare has changed in just a short time. Made me sad to see that he had missed out on the new technology.
I see a similar thing amongst my male relatives. Seems that most had died around 75 years old. Right now I have 3 that have blown past that age.
Even the new covid vaccine. To get several to market in less than a year seems like a miracle from my point of view.

As a matter of fact, I've been reading about a new penile transplant process that takes a cadaver penis and "denatures" it (as mentioned in my previous comment by flushing out all of the DNA and cells, leaving only a scaffold of tissue without any genetic material, to which they add modified host body cells and allow them to grow. This eventually fills in the penis "SCAFFOLD" with the appropriate tissues of the penis after which it can be transplanted to the host.
This process is currently in animal testing and they don't have approval to perform the process for humans yet but the article I read stated that the lab researchers had created several viable human penises via this process that COULD in theory have been transplanted into a patient. As for the animal testing, I believe it was with rabbits (IIRC), and the test subjects had subsequently fathered offspring after the transplants.

Even more proof. I had not heard or read about that. But it makes sense to me. It would be interesting to see that used in organ transplants. Should remove the risk of rejection & the nasty side effects of anti rejection meds. Eliminate the time window to use a donated organ. Maybe even allow other species organ use.

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[LBC2020]

So both of those are post implant?

They look good to me

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