Platelet gel used to regenerate the breast following removal of a tumor.

Silicone implants or grafts with meat or other body parts. A new use of a donated platelet gel allows breast cells to regenerate a patient's own after having a tumor removed. The head of Plastic Surgery Hospital of A Coruña, Francisco Martelo, says the procedure will prevent more aggressive, although he confesses that he would not have dared for fear of cancer and regenerating recalls that the project is in pilot phase
Gel de plaquetas utilizado para regenerar la mama tras la "A major advance because it would have surgery to patients with more aggressive techniques." He described the head of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Complex of A Coruña (Chuac), Francisco Martelo, the development of a platelet gel to reconstruct the breast following removal of a tumor, a technique already used, for example, in dentistry or sports muscle injuries, and hospital surgeons Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona were first used to restore volumes. Martelo praised the possibilities of this surgery, "less invasive" but insisting that he has no experience in it and still "is in experimental stage."

The surgeon explained that the gel is able to recruit and involve the patient's own cells to close the defect and reconstruct the volume removed. " Among the advantages of breast stuffed with this product, based on donor platelets, Martelo cites the absence of inflammation or adverse reaction, as "platelets are unable to make antibodies, but platelet-derived growth factors" . Thus, the patient close his wound and regenerate its own tissue cells, stimulated by the gelatin.

The head of Plastic Surgery Chuac notes that the gel filled disappear over time because "the patient's own tissue invades the gelatin, so that it rebuilds itself. In addition, the gel," malleable ", allows the chest is "just like before surgery, unlike other procedures.

"To succeed, it would be an important advance because it would have surgery to patients with more aggressive techniques, more drastic, that is less invasive," says Martelo, and relates that "with silicone implants often have to do surgery to have adapt. " It also avoids the risk of rejection or adverse reaction.

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The surgeon acknowledged that he would have thought of using platelet growth factors for the reconstruction of a volume after the removal of a tumor. "And although I had thought I would not have dared," he said. The risk of cell regeneration to renew make the tumor is the main reason Martelo states that had not tested this procedure. In addition, we also have deterred the volume size to rebuild: "It seemed a very large community to create so much volume and has been removed. They (the investigators) had more head."