Three-dimensional printing and pediatric liver disease.
Curr Opin Pediatr
; 28(5): 626-30, 2016 10.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27328182
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Enthusiastic physicians and medical researchers are investigating the role of three-dimensional printing in medicine. The purpose of the current review is to provide a concise summary of the role of three-dimensional printing technology as it relates to the field of pediatric hepatology and liver transplantation. RECENT FINDINGS:
Our group and others have recently demonstrated the feasibility of printing three-dimensional livers with identical anatomical and geometrical landmarks to the native liver to facilitate presurgical planning of complex liver surgeries. Medical educators are exploring the use of three-dimensional printed organs in anatomy classes and surgical residencies. Moreover, mini-livers are being developed by regenerative medicine scientist as a way to test new drugs and, eventually, whole livers will be grown in the laboratory to replace organs with end-stage disease solving the organ shortage problem.SUMMARY:
From presurgical planning to medical education to ultimately the bioprinting of whole organs for transplantation, three-dimensional printing will change medicine as we know in the next few years.
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Assunto principal:
Cuidados Pré-Operatórios
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Transplante de Fígado
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Cirurgia Assistida por Computador
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Doença Hepática Terminal
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Bioimpressão
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Impressão Tridimensional
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Hepatectomia
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En
Ano de publicação:
2016
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