REN Pengjie , XU Yihao , FAN Fei , TIAN Le , LU Xiaona , YOU Jianjun , WANG Huan , ZHENG Ruobing
  • Center of Rhinoplasty and Nasal Reconstruction, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100043, P.R.China;
FAN Fei, Email: fanfei1962@gmail.com
Tissue engineered cartilage; nasal reconstruction; nasal defect; nasal deformity
10.7507/1002-1892.202009053
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Objective To explore the clinical application and effectiveness of a personalized tissue engineered cartilage with seed cells derived from ear or nasal septal cartilage and poly-glycolic acid (PGA)/poly-lactic acid (PLA) as scaffold in patients with nasal reconstruction. Methods Between March 2014 and October 2015, 4 cases of acquired nasal defects and 1 case of congenital nasal deformity were admitted. The patient with congenital nasal deformity was a 4-year-old boy, and the source of seed cells was nasal septal cartilage. The other 4 patients were 3 males and 1 female, aged 24-33 years, with an average of 28.5 years. They all had multiple nasal subunit defects caused by trauma and the source of seed cells was auricular cartilage. The tissue engineered cartilage framework was constructed in the shape of normal human nasal alar cartilage and L-shaped silicone prosthesis with seed cells from cartilage and PGA-PLA compound biodegradable scaffold. The boy underwent nasal deformity correction and silicone prosthesis implantation in the first stage, and the prosthesis was removed and implanted with tissue engineered cartilage in the second stage; the remaining 4 adult patients all used expanded forehead flaps for nasal reconstruction. All 5 patients underwent 1-4 nasal revisions. The implanted tissue engineered cartilage was observed during the operation and taken from 2 patients for histological examination.Results All the incisions healed by first intention after the tissue engineered cartilage implantation, and the expanded forehead flaps survived. Postoperative low fever occurred in 3 patients. No complications such as infection, obvious immune rejection response, and tissue engineered cartilage protrusion were found in all patients. All patients were followed up 9-74 months (mean, 54.8 months). During follow-up, the patients had no obvious discomfort in the nose and the ventilation function were good. All patients were satisfied with the nasal contour. Early-stage histological examination showed the typical cartilage characteristics in 1 patient after the implantation of tissue engineered cartilage. Late-stage histological examination in 1 patient of tissue engineered cartilage showed the characteristics of fibrous connective tissue; and the other showed there was remaining cartilage.Conclusion The safety of tissue engineered cartilage constructed in vitro for reconstruction is preliminarily confirmed, but the effectiveness still needs further verification.

Citation： REN Pengjie, XU Yihao, FAN Fei, TIAN Le, LU Xiaona, YOU Jianjun, WANG Huan, ZHENG Ruobing. In vitro regeneration of tissue engineered cartilage and its clinical application for nasal reconstruction. Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery, 2021, 35(2): 221-226. doi: 10.7507/1002-1892.202009053 Copy

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