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  • Briefs: Ice slurries, heart attack victims and surgery patients

    In cardiac arrest victims, without fresh oxygen from blood pumped through the body, brain cells start to die in just minutes. Within 10-20 minutes after the heart stops beating, even if doctors can get the heart beating again, the brain has died....

    • Publication date : 2009/12/09
  • Cryoablation for breast cancer treatment

    According to IceCure Medical, a doctor working under a research protocol at Kameda Medical Centre, Japan, has treated 58 breast cancer patients with cryoablation over the last six years. As of now, none of the patients have suffered from a tumour...

    • Publication date : 2013/09/18
  • Walk with someone else's tendons thanks to cryogenics

    A technique of cryopreservation of grafts developed in France in the context of ligament transplantation, allows grafts to be preserved for up to 10 years and to limit the risk of rejection.

    • Publication date : 2018/11/22