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Cryopreservation of adipose tissue with and without cryoprotective agent addition for breast lipofilling: A cytological and histological study

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In the second reconstructive phase of the breast after mastectomy, lipofilling is often necessary. Currently, lipofilling occurs immediately after autologous adipose tissue harvesting procedure, but most of the patients, usually, require multiple sessions to obtain a satisfactory result. Therefore, the need of repeated surgical harvesting outputs implies high risk of patients' morbidity and discomfort as well as increasing medical time and costs. The aim of our pilot study was to find out a feasible method to cryopreserve adipose tissue, in order to avoid reiterated liposuctions. Lipoaspirates samples have been harvested from 10 women and preserved by three methods: (1) the first one, using 10% Me2SO and 20% human albumin from human plasma as cryoprotective agents; (2) the second one, adding 5% Me2SO as cryoprotective agent; 3) the last one, without any cryoprotective agent. Fresh and cryopreserved fat samples, obtained through the aforementioned processes, have been analyzed ex vivo. The efficiency of the cryopreservation methods used was determined by adipocyte viability and the expression of adipocytes surface markers. Lipoaspirates stored at -196 degrees C for 3 months, after thawing, retained comparable adipocyte viability and histology to fresh tissue and no significant differences were found between the three methods used. Although the current results, differences between the methodologies in terms of viability may not become evident until breast lipofilling using frozen-thawed cryopreserved tissue.

FreezingThawingAdipose tissueAdipocyteCryoprotectantsCELLSADIPOCYTESANESTHESIATOXICITYSAFETYDEATH

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2021

Cryobiology

Cryobiology

SCI
ISSN:0011-2240
年,卷(期):2021.103
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