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Fat Injections

Title: Fat Injections

Published: Wed, 19 Dec 2007

Description: Research is underway to see if cells from a patient's fat tissue may help heal joints damaged by osteoarthritis.

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" In tonight's -- on your -- medical record we'll search into a new treatment for osteoarthritis. And it works it would be an alternative to joint replacement surgery medical editor Irene -- joins us from the Tampa newsroom with more. Bill Brown loves to be outdoors he's a volunteer firefighter and rescue worker but even yard work has started taking its toll."

" I've finally went to a doctor you see why I was in such pain and railways. Having hard time. Even walking in the daily routine bill was diagnosed with osteoarthritis. I don't feel like I really have this strange museum some warriors activities and times. Army corps of."

" Quick fix for bills arthritis might be brewing in this research -- Doctor John C bank and his team are working on an alternative to joint replacements."

" There're always seem to be a lot of stem cells in fat and if you could extract those cells from a fat tissue. Ends up fairly straightforward. Content convert them to cartilage cells using the number of different strategies."

" Once removed a -- fat cells would be manipulated in the lap then surgically implanted back into the patients ailing joint."

" We would create something called a scaffold and we were all. Collect the cells to grow the tissue on that scaffold. And then place it into the patient."

" The scaffold is made a porous material that will be absorbed by the body and replaced with a patient's own tissue."

" The scaffold it allows time for the cells to form pay off highland cartilage like material which is that type of cartilage that you have -- concerned that we've -- Doing that and having any in this latest."

" Doctor -- expected to be another few years before this advance makes its market but the future looks promising them. You can read more about this research at the University of Arizona on CBO dot com keyword help then click on recent report. Q all right thank you firing."

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