A woman in Andalusia, southern Spain, successfully received a pioneering skin transplant process that combines tissue engineering and the use of nanostructures extracted from algae.<\/p>\n
The woman, 29, who suffered burns to 70 percent of her body last April, was the first person to receive a transplant of this type.<\/p>\n
The use of skin made from a patient’s own cells avoids the risk of transplant rejection, reduces the risk of infection and improves recovery.<\/p>\n
Further, this transplant technique was the first to use a chemical substance harvested from a marine algae, improving the elasticity and thickness of the skin.<\/p>\n
The new patent was registered by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) and the University of Granada who have since requested that the procedure be rolled out nationwide.<\/p>\n
Medical professionals from hospitals in Granada and Seville, as well as the University of Granada, said that this new technique could improve the prognosis of many other patients.<\/p>\n
The process developed 5,900 cm sheets of skin that were transplanted onto the patient in two procedures.<\/p>\n
Dr. Miguel Alaminos said the creation of the biomaterial represented a milestone after a decade of research in tissue engineering and should allow the patient to be discharged from the hospital in a month.<\/p>\n
Dr. Purificacion Gacto, from the Plastic Surgery unit in the Virgen del Rocio hospital in Seville, said that before the operation the patient did not have a good prognosis.<\/p>\n
Historically skin grafts on such a scale have required deceased donations, and are temporary transplants with increased risks of both rejection and infection.<\/p>\n
This new technique should reduce mortality rates.<\/p>\n
Currently, doctors are creating a second skin graft for a patient with burns to more than 70 percent of their body who is due to be operated on in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman in Andalusia, southern Spain, successfully received a pioneering skin transplant process that combines tissue engineering and the use of nanostructures extracted from algae. The woman, 29, who suffered burns to 70 percent of her body last April, was the first person to receive a transplant of this type. The use of skin made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[7190,12394],"supplier":[12393,806],"class_list":["post-36132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-algae","tag-tissue","supplier-andalusian-health-service-sas-servicio-andaluz-de-salud","supplier-universidad-de-granada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36132"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=36132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}