Use of tissues rich in MSCs in the treatment of diabetic and artheriopatic ulcers of lower limbs.

Ulcers represent the heaviest social and economic burden among diabetes complications, being the reason of long follow-up in outpatient services, increased hospitalizations as well as drastic QOI lowering for patients affected. The lifetime risk for a diabetic patient to develop an ulcer is 25%, and the lesion will lead to major or minor amputation in at least 14 % of patients affected. In diabetic artheriopathic patients, the entity of skin ulcers may compromise limb healing and salvage despite the

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Regenerative Surgery applied to hidradenitis suppurativa: what prospects?

The hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic and recurrent dermatological disease, which can appear after puberty and usually affects the axillary area and / or the genito-femoral area; it has a prevalence of 1-6%, mainly affects women and has a negative impact on quality of life. The common therapies have always given unsatisfactory results, but recently it can propose  more effective treatments, both medical and surgical.

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In memory of Aldo Bertani

Three years after the death of  Aldo Bertani, our Mentor, we like to take stock of the situation of this Academy.

We believe of catching the spirit of the plastic surgery of the future by focusing on tissue regeneration. In our youth we lived the heroic years of reconstructive microsurgery, which has allowed us to reach unthinkable goals such as the replanting of the limbs, the transplant tissue for saving limbs and finally the transplant tissue to reactivate the basic functions of relationship life, such as the use of the hand, walking, smile. Even today the idea of microsurgery in plastic surgery, or make your own body as a tissue bank to restore the shape and function of the diseased part is a winning idea, but it is equally true that it do not solve all the reconstructive issues of our discipline.

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Providing the Bertani Award

During the meeting of the National Congress of the Italian Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, held in Milan from 16 to 19 September 2015, it was awarded the prize Bertani. At the end of the comparative assessments,  the jury has identified, as the best project, the one presented by Dr. Francesca Toia, Palermo: “Stem cells from fat tissue. Isolation,

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Lipofilling with Wal Technique (Jet Water Assisted)- watch the video below

  On the 26th  and 27th of  June 2015 it held in Ancona at the Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand-surgery Unit of  Teaching Hospital Ospedali Riuniti, and under the aegis of Lipofilling, the second edition of course of High Specialization in lipofilling techniques: “Innovations in Plastic Surgery”. The Presidents of the course, Prof. Michele Riccio, Prof.

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