Breast Reconstruction and Fat Grafting—Biotechnologies and Biomaterials to Enhance Reconstructive Outcomes
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 57
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While the field of breast reconstruction has evolved significantly in the past decade, there remain limitations with both alloplastic and autologous techniques. These include issues such as capsular contracture with implant-based reconstruction, as well as volume loss with autologous tissue over time. With advances in surgical technology, the development of novel biomaterials, and new findings within the field of tissue engineering, however, promising approaches to such issues have come to light, thereby holding the potential to improve outcomes in both breast reconstruction and adjunct procedures such as fat grafting. The integration of bioengineering and biotechnology with breast reconstruction thus has important implications for the future of this field, as we move beyond tissue reconstruction to tissue regeneration and beyond.
This Special Issue on “Breast Reconstruction and Fat Grafting—Biotechnologies and Biomaterials to Enhance Reconstructive Outcomes” will focus on both original research papers and comprehensive reviews that detail cutting-edge surgical technologies, techniques, and biomaterials aimed at improving outcomes in breast reconstruction, and adjunct procedures such as fat grafting, to compile a series of scientific works from global experts in this field. Research topics will be considered relevant if they demonstrate novelty to the breast reconstruction literature.
Dr. Pooja S. Yesantharao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- breast reconstruction
- alloplastic breast reconstruction
- autologous breast reconstruction
- microsurgery
- fat grafting
- acellular dermal matrix
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