Comments on: Lab-Grown Blood Vessels Could Provide Safe Docking Station for Dialysis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/28/lab-grown-blood-vessels-could-provide-safe-docking-station-for-dialysis/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: geeta http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/28/lab-grown-blood-vessels-could-provide-safe-docking-station-for-dialysis/#comment-8029 geeta Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:18:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/28/lab-grown-blood-vessels-could-provide-safe-docking-station-for-dialysis/#comment-8029 Not sure if this is what Nick above says - isn't it cheaper to grow the cells of the blood vessel from the patient's stem cells? I thought stem cells can be grown into any type of cell. Don't they have other artificial material implated in the body - such as heart valves, knee/hip replacements etc/ Do they face the same kind of infection risks? I agree that the doctors and other medical assistants do not take the hygeine issue as seriously as they should - I have had a dentist pick up a dropped apparatus from the floor and put it right in my mouth!. They just follow the procedures - use fresh pair of gloves, use anti-infecting agents etc - blindly like a religion, without using reasoning. Not sure if this is what Nick above says – isn’t it cheaper to grow the cells of the blood vessel from the patient’s stem cells? I thought stem cells can be grown into any type of cell.
Don’t they have other artificial material implated in the body – such as heart valves, knee/hip replacements etc/ Do they face the same kind of infection risks?
I agree that the doctors and other medical assistants do not take the hygeine issue as seriously as they should – I have had a dentist pick up a dropped apparatus from the floor and put it right in my mouth!. They just follow the procedures – use fresh pair of gloves, use anti-infecting agents etc – blindly like a religion, without using reasoning.

]]> By: Michael C http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/28/lab-grown-blood-vessels-could-provide-safe-docking-station-for-dialysis/#comment-8028 Michael C Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:23:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/28/lab-grown-blood-vessels-could-provide-safe-docking-station-for-dialysis/#comment-8028 I don't think this is as much of a problem as the connection tubes. They put my connectors inside my chest in a big artery which did not block. The real problem was the infection (blood poisoning) in those tubes - which are a dead end (no circulation) where the bacteria can hide. They had to be removed. It is so easy to infect these tubes (dialysis operator just moved a magazine with her gloved hand then went back to screwing connections) without really trying. Once infected you cannot have dialysis until the blood is clean. You cannot get new connections (for dialysis) until the blood is clean. It would take about a week to rid your blood of a weak infection. Luckily, my kidney's were coming back to life. I don’t think this is as much of a problem as the connection tubes. They put my connectors inside my chest in a big artery which did not block.

The real problem was the infection (blood poisoning) in those tubes – which are a dead end (no circulation) where the bacteria can hide. They had to be removed. It is so easy to infect these tubes (dialysis operator just moved a magazine with her gloved hand then went back to screwing connections) without really trying.

Once infected you cannot have dialysis until the blood is clean. You cannot get new connections (for dialysis) until the blood is clean. It would take about a week to rid your blood of a weak infection.

Luckily, my kidney’s were coming back to life.

]]> By: Nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/28/lab-grown-blood-vessels-could-provide-safe-docking-station-for-dialysis/#comment-8027 Nick Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/28/lab-grown-blood-vessels-could-provide-safe-docking-station-for-dialysis/#comment-8027 While this is a cool trick, I have to wonder why they didn't just do the skin-cell-to-stem-cell trick to grow blood vessels. While this is a cool trick, I have to wonder why they didn’t just do the skin-cell-to-stem-cell trick to grow blood vessels.

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