How to increase the survival of adipose tissue: features of the methods

One of the most important problems of lipofilling, which all practitioners of aesthetic medicine strive to solve, is the survival of the transplanted fat cells to the patient. There is an ongoing search for new methods of processing the harvested adipose tissue that would increase the viability of cells ready for transplantation.

It is very important to take the fat graft in such a way as to injure the cells as little as possible, and to introduce them into the recipient zone with the greatest possible integration. Some experts believe that in order to increase the viability of the fat graft, it is necessary to limit its contact with air as much as possible, and also to choose the most gentle treatment method.

Today, two methods of processing adipose tissue are used – centrifugation  and washing followed by filtration. Analyzes show that after washing, adipose tissue undergoes less fibrosis than after centrifugation, and it also has fewer damaged adipocytes. A lot of questions when discussing the methods of processing adipose tissue are caused by the composition of solutions for washing fat – cleaning it from blood particles and fibrous cords, damaged adipocytes and residues of injected drugs. Currently, there is no generally recognized protector that improves fat graft clearance. There is evidence that cells are minimally damaged when they are treated with saline and further mechanical filtration.

Professor Patrick Tonnard presented one of the methods of processing and preparing adipose tissue for introduction into the recipient zone at his master class. Look at estet-portal.com.