Studying Regenerated Neo-Bladder To Help Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Urologists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are studying whether a neo-bladder construct grown from a patient’s own cells can improve bladder function for adult spinal cord injury patients.Jefferson is only one of six sites in the U.S. enrolling participants in this clinical trial for the lab-grown neo-bladder construct that will involve a total of 10 patients.”It’s never been done in adults before,” said primary investigator Patrick Shenot, M.D. [click link for full article]

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