Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

adr1an@programming.dev · 6 months ago

Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

Technus@lemmy.zip · 6 months ago

Percutaneous means “through the skin”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percutaneous

In general, percutaneous refers to the access modality of a medical procedure, whereby a medical device is introduced into a patient’s blood vessel via a needle stick.

ignirtoq@fedia.io · 6 months ago

Okay, through the skin, sure, but what about the other 4 words? They go in through the skin into a blood vessel… to where?

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works · 6 months ago

Probably the leg bone, most things connect to it.

rishabh@discuss.tchncs.de · edit-2 6 months ago

Percutaneous: means “through the skin”

Transhepatic: means “across the liver”

Portal vein: a major vein that carries blood from the intestines to the liver

Transplantation: surgical procedure involving the removal of an organ or tissue from one person (donor) and placing it in another person (recipient)

Just use LLM these days!

Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months.

Treating a type 2 diabetic patient with impaired pancreatic islet function by personalized endoderm stem cell-derived islet tissue - Cell Discovery