Avaliação por processamento de imagem assistida por computador das alterações citométricas dos adipócitos do tecido celular subcutâneo da parede anterior do abdome, após hipercapnia local / Analysis of adipocytes changes by computer-assisted imaging process in abdominal wall adipose tissue after local hypercapnia

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Recent researches have demonstrated the beneficial effects of percutaneous infiltration of carbon dioxide in different fields of medicine. Currently, this therapy proves to be an alternative for treatment of localized fat deposits formed after lipectomy of the abdominal wall. The effects appear to be related to the ability of therapy to increase local blood circulation and lipolitic effects of CO2 on tissue involved. However few studies have evaluated histological and cytometric effects on subcutaneous adipocytes tissue subjected to this new therapeutic modality. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of infusion of carbon dioxide on the population and morphology of adipocytes in the abdominal wall. Fifteen volunteers were subjected to sessions of CO2 infusion for three consecutive weeks with two sessions per week at intervals of two to three days between each session. The volume of carbon dioxide infused per session, at points previously marked, was always based on the surface of the area to be treated with gas volume of 250 mL/100 cm2 of surface treated. Areas were demarcated with the limit up to 2 cm equidistant between them. At each point of puncture was injected 10mL of CO2, per session, keeping the gas flow of 80 mL/minute. Fragments of subcutaneous tissue of the anterior abdominal wall were collected by surgical biopsy for histological study before and after treatment. The numbers and histomorphological changes in adipocytes, such as area, diameter, perimeter, length, width and number of adipocytes per field of view were measured by image processing computer assisted using the program Image-Pro Plus. The results before and after the infusion of carbon dioxide were analyzed by paired t test. Significance level of 5% (p<0.05) was adopted. A significant difference was found in the values of variables measured after the use of hypercapnia as reduction of its area (p = 0,00001), diameter (p = 0.00001), perimeter (p = 0,00001), length (p = 0,00001), width (p = 0,00001), greater spacing between them and lower number of adipocytes per field (p = 0,00001). It is concluded that there is effect of adipocyte morphology and population of the subcutaneous adipose tissue after therapeutic use of hypercapnia

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adipócitos adipocytes processamento de imagem assistida por computador tela subcutânea dióxido de carbono/uso terapêutico subcutaneous tissue image processing computer-assisted carbon dioxide/therapeutic use

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