This unfavourable opinion was essentially based on medullo-adrenal autotransplantation, whose danger is unquestionable, but whose effectiveness is doubtful. |
I ended up having a renal autotransplantation, which was a huge operation to save my kidneys. |
The patient remained free of disease 24 months after undergoing chemotherapy, at which point she requested autotransplantation of the thawed ovarian tissue. |
Note that this is a case of autotransplantation, meaning transplantation between locations in the same body. |
As a result, many teams of surgeons, especially in the United States, in Great Britain, China, Spain, Italy and Cuba, started to practise medullo-adrenal autotransplantation, following the example of the Mexican surgeons. |
New options for salvage treatment may narrow the gap, if one exists, between single and tandem autotransplantation. |