| 1. | The graft may be taken from the patient ( an autograft ).
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| 2. | The use of autografts limits how much bone is available.
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| 3. | Another procedure for aortic valve replacement is the Ross procedure ( or pulmonary autograft ).
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| 4. | A biomaterial may also be an autograft, allograft or xenograft used as an organ transplant material.
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| 5. | It may be more difficult to mobilize stem cells for autograft in people who have received lenalidomide.
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| 6. | Implants take less surgery time, are limitlessly available and may have more favorable characteristics than autografts.
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| 7. | Osteochondral autograft ( OATS ) is a technique that requires that the surgeon transplant sections of bone and cartilage.
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| 8. | The results of the pulmonary autograft procedure are likely to be superior with the use of fresh homograft valves.
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| 9. | Many patients, especially those receiving bone autografts, experience significant pain six months after the operation, he said.
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| 10. | Autografts work for some kinds of surgery, King said, but often there is no good tissue to use.
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