GRIECO , Michele P.

Introduction: Adipose grafting has undergone significant changes over time. Many different techniques have been followed by trying to improve the quality of the lipoaspirate and the survival of the fat graft after implantation. Material and methods: The purpose of this review is to analyse the historical evolution of the surgical harvesting and...

Background: Endoscopic transthoracic sympathicotomy has proven to be an effective and durable surgical treatment for severe primary hyperhidrosis. Anyhow, in some cases, especially in overweight patients, a thick overlying subpleural fat may obscure the sympathetic chain, precluding access to the ganglia and partial or total completion of the...

Introduction: Nowadays, liposuction is the most frequently performed aesthetic surgery procedure in Western Countries. This technique has had rapid development since the 1970s, when it was experimented for the first time by A. and G. Fischer. It is currently widely used in clinical practice for many different situations in aesthetic,...

We conducted a randomized, prospective pilot study to evaluate the therapeutic effects (in particular, wound healing rate and pain relief) of one device that administers topical millimeter waves (MW) in patients with chronic skin ulcers of the lower extremities. Twenty consecutive patients with chronic skin ulcers of the lower extremities were...

In the past adipose tissue was considered only as the energy storage of our body, today we can talk about adipose organ, an active and dynamic tissue from which multipotent stem cells can be obtained. The aim of our study was to focus on the properties and possible uses of stem cells derived from adipose tissue (ASCs) in regenerative medicine...

Oxidative stress is hypothesized to be one of the main causes of the pathophysiologic alterations observed during impaired healing of wounds. In the present study, we aimed to measure systemic levels of free radicals in blood and anti-oxidant (AO) activity in the plasma of patients with chronic ulcers (venous stasis ulcers and arterial...

The skin Cancers of the head and neck district are localized mostly on the nose, which, by being in the center of the mid-face, has an important aesthetic role. Therefore, many reconstructive techniques have been studied; among them regional skin fiaps appeared the most suitable since they guaranteed the oncological radicality as well as a good...

LIPECTO MY AS A SOURCE OF STEM CELLS Over the last few years, interest in adipose tissue as the ideal source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has considerably grown. MSCs represent the future of regenerative medicine, both for their multipotent capabilities and for their ability to excretion of pro-regenerative cytokines. Mesenchymal stem cells...