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Breast Augmentation Using Autologous 

 

Cell-Enriched Breast Augmentation is a procedure that uses your patient’s own liposuctioned body fat, taken from the stomach, hips, thighs, or other areas of the body, and transfers it to the breast. Unlike traditional fat grafting, during this procedure you enrich the fat graft with your patient’s own adipose-derived stem and regenerative cells (ADRCs) prior to transplanation.

 

Why Enriching the Graft with Cells?

 

Historically, autologous fat grafting has had mixed success. One of the most important challenges is the varying degrees of graft resorption, which makes it difficult for physicians to determine the necessary graft amount and often requires repeat procedures. Another challenge is the variability of techniques used for tissue harvest, tissue processing, and graft delivery, which points to the need for systematic, automated technologies.

1) Use of Stem and Regenerative Cells

 

Cytori researchers and clinicians investigated the use and addition of adipose-derived stem and regenerative cells (ADRCs) to the fat graft to assess the cells’ potential in improving graft survival. Our collaborators and our own experiences with these cells confirm that ADRCs promote fat graft survival by stimulating growth factors to form and maintain new blood vessels, thus providing necessary oxygen and nutrients. Clinical data demonstrates the effectiveness of this new approach. Further data is forthcoming and will be shared on this site.    

 

2) Automation with Celution® 800/CRS System

 

To increase consistency, we developed the Celution® 800/CRS System, which automates and standardizes several aspects of fat grafting. Available to physicians in Europe and Asia, the product allows the physician to wash the fat graft, extract the stem and regenerative cells residing within the tissue, and mix the fat with the cells to create a cell-enriched fat graft, which he or she can then redeliver to the patient.