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Dr. Cole will return to the office on Wednesday. I will ask him for more details. The short version is:
On 06-04-2014, our first patient had AmnioFix administered after his surgery. He's a local and should be able to return soon for evaluation. On paper AmnioFix looks better than ACell and PRP. Since our first patient, three others have had AmnioFix applied to their donor extraction sites.
Dr. Cole will examine our patient's donor areas under magnification for hairs growing out of extraction sites. Amniofix is expensive, so the results will need to be a significant step up from our ACell study results to justify its continued use.
Overview:
"Amniotic membrane is a unique material and its composition contains collagen types I, III, IV, V, and VII. Amniotic membrane is composed of structural extracellular matrix (ECM), that also contains specialized proteins fibronectin, laminins, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans. In addition, amniotic membrane contains essential, active, healing growth factors such as epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor beta (TGF-b), fibroblast growth factor (FGF), and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF).8 Amniotic tissues have shown little to no HLA-A, B, C antigens and β2 microglobulin.3"
On 06-04-2014, our first patient had AmnioFix administered after his surgery. He's a local and should be able to return soon for evaluation. On paper AmnioFix looks better than ACell and PRP. Since our first patient, three others have had AmnioFix applied to their donor extraction sites.
Dr. Cole will examine our patient's donor areas under magnification for hairs growing out of extraction sites. Amniofix is expensive, so the results will need to be a significant step up from our ACell study results to justify its continued use.
Overview:
"Amniotic membrane is a unique material and its composition contains collagen types I, III, IV, V, and VII. Amniotic membrane is composed of structural extracellular matrix (ECM), that also contains specialized proteins fibronectin, laminins, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans. In addition, amniotic membrane contains essential, active, healing growth factors such as epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor beta (TGF-b), fibroblast growth factor (FGF), and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF).8 Amniotic tissues have shown little to no HLA-A, B, C antigens and β2 microglobulin.3"
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