METHOD FOR OBTAINING SPONGIFORM BIOMATERIAL FOR PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61L31/14 

FIELD: medicine, plastic and reconstructive surgery.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with the ways for obtaining spongiform material out of biological tissues applied for treating contour skin deformations in plastic surgery or filling in volumetric defects of organs and soft tissues in reconstructive surgery. It is important to obtain spongiform material of wide functional properties and clinical efficiency. The method deals with mechanical purification of allogeneic connective-tissue neoplasms against the residues of adjacent tissues and foreign contaminations followed by washing in running water, treatment with 3%-hydrogen peroxide solution, rinsing in 0.9%-sodium chloride solution, homogenization till obtaining the homogeneous viscous mass to form the body of the required geometrical shape and size to subject it for frosting-defrosting cycles at the quantity of 2-7, moreover, frosting should be fulfilled steadily at the rate of about 0.1-1°C/min up to -40...-45°C to be kept at the temperature mentioned for 24 h followed by complete defrosting of biomaterial at +4°C, and in the course of the last cycle after frosting up to the desired temperature it is necessary to subject biomaterial for vacuum freeze drying to achieve the constant weight, then it should be hermetically sealed and sterilized with gamma-irradiation at the dosage of 2.5 MRad.

EFFECT: higher efficiency.