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Everday Surgical Heroes: Puregraft®- Better fat transfer survival

24/3/2015

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Continuing in the series of everyday surgical heroes,that make procedures easier and safer for my patients, is the Puregraft® fat transfer bag. I have been performing lipofilling/ fat transfer for 20 years, initially as a trainee and for the last 9 years as a Consultant. Fat transfer is an important adjunctive procedure in breast reconstruction and aesthetic surgery. I have used the Coleman centrifuge to concentrate fat, then gave up using centrifugation, and continued with just washing the fat and letting it stand to separate.

I started using the Puregraft® bag about 2 years ago and it has finally been approved for use in my local NHS hospital. And what a difference it makes. It is a closed system, so processing the fat is sterile, less messy and quicker. Due to its filter, the fat appears to be cleaner with less blood. And anecdotally, my observation has been that survival rates of harvested fat with Puregraft® are higher. A recent study, now confirms this: Long-term volumetric retention of autologous fat grafting processed with closed membrane filtration. Gerth DJ, et al. Aesthet Surg J. 2014 Sep;34(7):985-94.


Another useful tool to improve outcomes for patients!


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