This morning on the CBS Early Show they featured a piece on Dara Torres knee surgery and recovery. It was a quick short piece but that is morning “news” shows work. You can read the interview and watch the video at cbsnews.com but here is a few snippets:
CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton got an inside look into Torres' health problem -- her knees -- an issue that affects millions of Americans.
However, Torres decided to undergo a procedure that uses biotechnology to regrow her own cartilage cells by implanting them in her knee, with hopes of repairing it back to health.
Minas performed a radical procedure Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI) on Torres. First, he removed 10,000 cartilage cells from Dara's knee -- about the size of three Tic-Tacs. They were sent to a lab and grown for several weeks into 50 million cells.
During surgery, Dara's knee was opened up. Minas sewed a synthetic patch over the pothole where her cartilage was missing. Then, the 50 million cells were injected. If successful, they will harden and grow into healthy cartilage.
Like I said the piece was a quick hit n' run morning news piece. But still interesting to those of us who follow Dara Torres.
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