Vein graft fulfilled with fat in peripheral nerve repair: a new proposal / Enxerto venoso preenchido com gordura no reparo de nervo periférico: uma nova proposta

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

With technology advance and the resultant production of more sophisticated equipment, microsurgery has been obtaining more attention in the experimental investigation field referred to peripheral nerves repair. It is know that in case of simple nerve section, without tissue loss, the end-to-side-neurorraphy is the most recommended technique. However, in each situation where nerve tissue loss occurs or, when there is no nerve distal stump anymore, other techniques should be used, precisely because the nerve cannot be put on traction to try nerve coaptation. Thus, many tubulization techniques which use biological materials (veins, nerves, muscles, pericardium, veins and muscles combined, adherence molecule) or non-biological materials (polyethylene tubes, silicon, among others) are being tested and the results has been unsatisfactory yet, especially concerning functional point of view. It is known that in trauma without tissue loss, like neuropraxy, for example, the nerve recovers spontaneously in a satisfactory way. It is also known that in a vascular-nervous bundle, the peripheral nerve is very closed to arteries and veins adventitious layer. The vein adventitious is built by weak conjunctive tissue, which is rich in fat cells. Thus, in a trauma, the neurites, derived from proximal stump of injured nerve, have direct contact with the fat cells. Following this argumentation and based on previous works that used vein fulfilled with fresh skeleton muscle as graft, we have decided to test the possibility of axon growth through vein graft fulfilled with autologous fat tissue. To achieve this, it was used rats external jugular vein fulfilled with in natura fat tissue removed from the adjacencies of the referred vein, in a trial to recover the sciatic nerve and one of its branches, the common peroneal nerve. The certification of successful nerve recovering was done through the analysis of nerves (Sciatic and Common Peroneal Nerve) and muscles (Extensor Digitorium Longus - EDL and Tibial Cranial Muscle TC), always comparing them with the respective control groups. Techniques of microsurgery, microscopy, morphometry and physiological analysis (foot print) were employed, besides the use of Low-Power Laser (LPL).

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tubulização neurorraphy regeneration enxerto regeneração tubulization graft neurorrafia

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