[Allotransplantation of the parathyroid in patients without immunosuppression]

T Tołlłloczko1, A Sawicki, B Woźniewicz

  • 1Klinika Chirurgii Naczyń i transplantologii Akademii Medycznej w Warszawie.

Polski Tygodnik Lekarski (Warsaw, Poland : 1960)
|October 1, 1995
PubMed

Eighteen patients with postoperative insufficiency (after thyroid operations) have been treated with cultured, hormonally active, living and ABO the same group type parathyroid cells. Explants had been taken from 2 operated patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism. Hormonal activity of the transplanted parathyroid cells under the fascia of the brachio-radialis muscle has been confirmed by clinical, biochemical tests and the level of PTH in blood serum from the vein of non-grafted arm. Hormonal activity of the graft was variable but lasted up to 14 months.

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