How fat grafting works

BGA Evans, EM Gronet… - Plastic and Reconstructive …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… Newly upregulated EC surface integrins help guide tip cell filopodial extensions from
sprouting vessels through the remodeled ECM and into the graft. The proangiogenic cytokine …

The science of fat grafting

L Shih, MJ Davis, SJ Winocour - Seminars in plastic surgery, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
… persist for up to additional 9 months; the total remodeling process following fat grafting can
thus take up to a year ([Fig. 4]).[14] During this “chronic” phase, lipid absorption continues …

What do we know now about autologous fat grafting?

S Gal, Y Xue, LLQ Pu - Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… In their subsequent study, the same author group demonstrated strong evidence of dynamic
tissue remodeling after transplant of nonvascularized fat grafts. Using immunohistochemistry …

The future of fat grafting

SE Hanson - Aesthetic surgery journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
grafts as a biological scaffold is advantageous for clinical translation as these grafts are
The tissue microenvironment is dynamically remodeled during wound healing and traumatic …

Fat grafting into younger recipients improves volume retention in an animal model

NN Chung, RC Ransom, CP Blackshear… - Plastic and …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… of fat grafts from each age group at 8 weeks after grafting. (Below) Median and range for
fat graft … Although our data did demonstrate improved fat graft retention in younger animals, …

Increasing fat graft retention in irradiated tissue after preconditioning with external volume expansion

J Lujan-Hernandez, MS Chin, DJ Perry… - Plastic and …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
are poor recipient sites for fat grafts and (2) external volume expansion is able to improve
fat graft … Our study did not analyze scar tissue characteristics after fat grafting. Subjectively, …

Injectable tissue replacement and regeneration: anatomic fat grafting to restore decayed facial tissues

SR Cohen, H Womack - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… demonstrated that PRP fat grafts results in better overall fat grafting survival as well … to fat
grafts increased fat cell survival rate and adipose stem cell proliferation. The volume of fat grafts

Molecular mechanisms of adipose tissue survival during severe hypoxia: implications for autologous fat graft performance

S Wang, JA Gusenoff, JP Rubin… - Plastic and Reconstructive …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… neovascularization, which is required to support the survival of remaining … fat graft retention
is the ASCs. Unlike adipocytes, ASCs are less susceptible to hypoxia and can proliferate after

Fat graft retention: adipose tissue, adipose-derived stem cells, and aging

C Trotzier, I Sequeira, C Auxenfans… - Plastic and …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
are not the only cellular component involved in graft survival. This review aims to describe
other parameters that can have an effect on graft survival, … matrix (ECM) remodeling. We also …

Principles and applications of fat grafting in plastic surgery

A Abu-Ghname, AT Perdanasari… - Seminars in plastic …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
… (R) can only accommodate a limited amount of graft (G) without resulting in graft necrosis
([Fig. 3]). While fat grafting success is frequently measured as graft survival percentage, this …