Other specialities will have to follow cardiothoracicsurgery and fertility treatment in coming up with quality indicators: survival rates for individual heart surgeons have recently begun to be published and the success rates of IVF clinics are released.
"This is an exciting study showing that tissue engineering can be a viable option for complex urethral repairs, " said David A. Vorp, a professor of bioengineering and cardiothoracicsurgery at the University of Pittsburgh, who was not involved with this study.