Source: BBC NEWS
Published: August 4, 2006
Summary:
Patients with complicated bone fractures are being helped to avoid permanent disability in a pioneering trial at a Shropshire hospital.
Under the trial the patient's bone marrow is used to literally reproduce their own bones that help the fracture heal itself.
It involves taking stem cells from the patient's bone marrow, stimulating them in a laboratory, then implanting them back into the patient's leg.
The stem cells help to grow new bone and knit the fracture site together.
Commentary: This experiment hopefully will be successful in treating bone injuries in a diverse patient population.
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