Adult stem cells for burns and wounds

Successfully tested a spray-gun to deposit stem of healthy skin, mixed factors and platelet growth factors on burns and wounds but also to treat Alopecia.

More and more abundant are the updates that come from research on adult stem cells. In the U.S., already operating a new system to treat burns, a “spray-gun” that fires burned on the skin stem cells and has already successfully treated a dozen patients. Stem cells taken from a piece of healthy skin of the patient, instead of being grown in the laboratory, are mixed in a specific solution and sprayed on the injured party, accelerating healing.

Adult Stem Cells

“An interesting piece of news, but must be viewed with caution – Alfredo says Borriello, plastic surgeon and director of the Unit of Plastic Surgery Hospital of Pellegrini Napoli -” should check the method of sampling and treatment of the cells, however, must be strictly of the patient. I have some doubt about the middle of the gun-spray as a method even if the search proceeds by leaps and bounds, and any innovations must be kept an eye on”.

Just to Pellegrini in Naples continued successful regenerative medicine and reconstructive protocols based on adult stem cells.

Two strategies:
- Applications of growth factors extracted from the patient’s own blood that is purified in the laboratory and used a slow recovery on injuries such as vascular ulcers, diabetic, pressure sores, in addition to traumatic injuries from accidents, where loss of tissue is abundant;

- Stem cells taken from body fat usually used in cosmetic surgery operations “lipofilling,” that is filling, but are now used to develop effective therapeutic treatments for radiation injuries and trauma.

We have improved some parameters – Borriello said – as the concentration of platelet factor taken from the blood that is 5 / 6 times greater than the initial one, with the result that we use these gels are more active and immediate action. Injected into the area to treat because the layer of the dermis must be crossed. In terms of stem cells, however, the series is even wider: soon we will have to stem the skin appendages such as hair follicles, to treat alopecia. Fat transplant in our department for his valuable contribution of stem cells. The centrifuged, then inject the edge of an open wound mixed with platelet growth factors. This approach reduces the healing time, the frequency of medication and therefore costs, as well as get a better healing.

“I consider the adult stem a big bet on the future – said the surgeon -. truly allow the medicine to be less interventionist and more regenerative, capable of exploiting the resources already present naturally in the body.”