Visit our website: www.peaksurgical.com The PlasmaBlade provides plastic/reconstructive surgeons with a single tissue dissection device that offers several features and benefits: •It quickly and easily cuts through all types of tissue, including skin, fat and muscle, and dissects in a wet or dry surgical field. •It allows for viable healthy tissue flaps to be raised and/or transferred. •It provides the same positive wound healing profile of minimal scarring and inflammation as a scalpel but with 60 percent less bleeding. •It provides 65 percent greater skin incision wound strength at six weeks than traditional electrosurgery. •It results in 60 percent less scar tissue formation at six weeks than traditional electrosurgery, which is associated with improved cosmesis compared with traditional electrosurgery. •It eliminates the need to switch between a scalpel and a traditional electrosurgery or cautery device, improving workflow efficiency and reducing the chance for sharps injuries or burns. •Because of the lower temperature and minimal tissue charring associated with the PlasmaBlade, it avoids the problems of surgical smoke associated with traditional electrosurgery, which can obscure the operating field in the pocket. •Because it is associated with reduced injury to adjacent tissues, the PlasmaBlade can be used safely near delicate structures such as nerves (in facelifts and hand operations) and blood vessels (in hand operations and in free tissue transfers). •It may

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Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent cells with therapeutic applications. The aim of our work was to develop an advanced therapy product for bone repair, associating autologous human adipose-derived MSCs (ASCs) with human bone allograft (TBF; Phoenix®). We drew up specifications that studied: (a) the influence of tissue collection procedures (elective liposuction or non-invasive resection) and patient age on cell number and function; (b) monolayer cell culture conditions and osteodifferentiation and particularly the possibility of reducing stages of culture; and (c) the bone construct preparation and especially the comparison between two types of cells seeded on bone allograft (number of cultured processed lipoaspirate (PLA) cells and monolayer-expanded ASCs) and cultured for 1, … Source: MedWorm: Liposuction

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