The Avance graft looks like a regular nerve, but it's been kept frozen to have a shelf life of up to three years. It is thawed before Thomajan inserts it into the patient.

Although nerve grafting has found application in urology only during recent years, it is an otherwise well established medical procedure: sural nerve grafts have been used extensively with ...

Nerve grafts from cadavers can be preserved for long periods, Dr. de Rezende found, in either liquid petrolatum or alcohol. The grafted nerve tissue need not be “alive” when transplanted.

AxoGen, Inc. AXGN announced the initiation of rolling submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) seeking licensure for its human nerve allograft candidate, Avance Nerve Graft, to the FDA ...

Morelli wants to have a preventative double mastectomy with nerve grafting. "I would love to be able to hug my children and feel them against me and have sensation in my skin there, even just for ...

Find out about the sural nerve, including its function, location, health problems, and more. Skip to ... it is relatively easy for healthcare professionals to use it for biopsies or nerve grafting.

But the success rate of nerve grafts can be hit-and-miss. Nerve guides, the tubular structures sutured to both ends of a severed nerve to bridge the gap, have been around for about 30 years.

Axogen, Inc., a surgical products company, said Monday that nerve graft processing has started at its newly opened center in Vandalia. Since last year, the Florida biotechnology company been ...

A peripheral nerve graft and treatment with an enzyme blocker restored breathing in partially paralyzed rats. The finding, published today (July 13) in Nature, suggests that a similar technique could ...

AxoGen, Inc. AXGN announced the initiation of rolling submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) seeking licensure for its human nerve allograft candidate, Avance Nerve Graft, to the FDA ...