Bone infarction describes bone marrow necrosis that occurs within a long bone’s metaphysis or diaphysis. Multiple causative factors lead to ischaemia and subsequent necrosis of bone marrow. The role ...
Your body's blood supply — red and white blood cells alike — is produced in bone marrow, a spongy tissue found in your bones, ensuring your body remains oxygenated and protected from disease. Because ...
The skeleton is the framework of the body—protecting your organs, enabling movement and housing the bone marrow that makes blood cells, to name a few functions. As we age, maintaining bone ...
In AVN, the softened necrotic cancellous bone is unable to withstand physiologic ... JSOA Editorial Board (click image to zoom) Diagram of infarct in femoral head (left). Instrument depresses ...
Efforts to develop a gene therapy for Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA)—a rare, life-threatening disorder in which bone marrow cannot make mature, functioning red blood cells—have been hampered by ...