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24-hour Perfusion of Porcine Myocutaneous Flaps Mitigates Reperfusion Injury: A 7-day Follow-up Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Static cold storage is the gold standard of preservation in vascularized composite allotransplantation and allows a preservation time of 4-6 hours. Machine preservation is a promising technique for prolonged preservation; however, studies on extended preservation that compare different preservatives are scarce. This study aims to assess the feasibility of 24-hour acellular perfusion and compares different preservation solutions in a porcine myocutaneous flap replantation model.

Methods

Six harvested bilateral myocutaneous flaps of three Dutch Landrace pigs were perfused hypothermically for 24 hours with University of Wisconsin machine perfusion solution (UW-MPS; n = 2) or histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate solution (HTK; n = 2) or preserved on ice for 4 hours (n = 2) before orthotopic replantation. Animals were observed for 7 days after replantation. Skeletal muscle injury was assessed by biochemical markers during perfusion, and muscle biopsies were analyzed for ischemia reperfusion injury directly after preservation and at 1, 3, and 7 days after replantation.

Results

Markers of muscle damage varied during perfusion, but decreased overall in both perfusion groups. Flap weight increased 60% and 97% in the HTK-perfused flaps, compared with -6% and -7% in the UW-MPS-perfused flaps after 24 hours. Histopathologic evaluation demonstrated decreased muscle damage in flaps perfused with HTK compared with the UW-MPS-perfused flaps at 1 week after replantation.

Conclusions

Machine perfusion of myocutaneous flaps for 24 hours with subsequent replantation is feasible, but warrants further research. Perfusion with HTK solution seemed to result in better histological outcomes 7 days after reperfusion compared with UW-MPS.

SUBMITTER: Brouwers K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860339 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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24-hour Perfusion of Porcine Myocutaneous Flaps Mitigates Reperfusion Injury: A 7-day Follow-up Study.

Brouwers Kaj K Thijssen Max F MF Kruit Anne Sophie AS van Midden Dominique D Koers Erik J EJ Zegers Her J H HJH Hummelink Stefan S Ulrich Dietmar J O DJO

Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 20220221 2

<h4>Background</h4>Static cold storage is the gold standard of preservation in vascularized composite allotransplantation and allows a preservation time of 4-6 hours. Machine preservation is a promising technique for prolonged preservation; however, studies on extended preservation that compare different preservatives are scarce. This study aims to assess the feasibility of 24-hour acellular perfusion and compares different preservation solutions in a porcine myocutaneous flap replantation model ...[more]

PMID: 35211366

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24-hour Perfusion of Porcine Myocutaneous Flaps Mitigates Reperfusion Injury: A 7-day Follow-up Study.

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Publications

24-hour Perfusion of Porcine Myocutaneous Flaps Mitigates Reperfusion Injury: A 7-day Follow-up Study.

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