The benefits of the Body Jet system in lipofilling interventions in terms of minimal trauma on donor tissue and a high cell viability of the removed tissue, with particular reference to the mesenchymal cells of the SVF, are already known and reported on this blog last April 2, 2014. the news comes from some preliminary studies that largely confirm the superiority of the results offered by body Jet system to other devices regard the removal of fat tissue.

The Body Jet system, which uses the technique WAL (water jet-assisted lipotransfer) developed by the Human Med allows to implement a soft removal of the fat by means of an adjustable jet of water, capable of induce the idrolipolisi of the treated area, without cell damage. The gentle jet of water breaks up the adipose lobules while allowing the suction, no way  interfere with the integrity of blood vessels, nerves and the surrounding tissues.

The procedure consists of three phases:

Irrigation of the donor area by means of analgesic solution enriched with adrenaline,

Irrigation with fresh water jet (hydrodissection) and simultaneous suction from the collecting area of small clusters of adipose tissue,

Filtration, purification and concentration of adipose tissue that appears consistent like creamy in absence of blood and other residues,

At the Reconstructive Surgery – Hand Surgery Unit; Plastic Surgery section of Ancona, this method is performing in all of lipofilling procedures with particular reference to breast surgery, with brilliant clinical results obtained by minimum number of treatments (average 50 % less than the number of treatments needed with the other methods). Added to that, there are the results obtained by our studies performed on adipose tissue.

In particular, we inseminated in vitro the adipose tissue got and processed with the WAL technique, them compared the results in term of biological characterization with those obtained from cultures of fat taken with other methods, such as centrifugation according to Coleman and decanting of Rigotti.

The final results of this study show that adipose tissue obtained with the Body jet system keeps a very high cell viability, up by about 20% compared to that observed by the other methods evaluated, and particularly the stem cells from the vascular fraction -stromale (SVF) show a high vitality and intense proliferative activity, higher than those obtained with other methods.

We can therefore conclude that these experimental results explain the excellent clinical results and certainly the Body jet system has an absolute primacy over any other method in the ability to ensure an effective lipofilling procedure in plastic surgery.

Michele Riccio