Early wound healing outcomes after regenerative periodontal surgery with enamel matrix derivatives or guided tissue regeneration: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND: Proper wound healing after regenerative surgical procedures is an essential issue for clinical success. Guided tissue regeneration (GTR) and application of enamel matrix derivatives (EMD) are common means to regenerate periodontal tissues. Both methods bear considerable advantages due to their special characteristics, but also go along with certain disadvantages. Today, there is no consensus in the literature whether GTR or EMD show better results regarding early wound healing, which is considered a crucial stage in periodontal regeneration. Therefore, the aim of the present systematic review was to compare the early wound healing after regenerative periodontal surgery with either EMD or GTR treatment. METHODS: An electronic literature search in PubMed was performed to identify randomized clinical trials (RCTs) or clinical trials (CTs) comparing regenerative surgery employing EMD and/or GTR in patients with chronic periodontitis. Among the finally included studies, a qualitative and quantitative data extraction regarding early wound healing parameters was performed. Primary outcome parameters were early wound healing index (EWH), flap dehiscence, membrane exposure, suppuration and abscess formation during the first 6 weeks. As secondary parameters, swelling and allergic reactions were assessed. RESULTS: Seven studies reporting 220 intrabony periodontal defects in 199 patients were analysed. Flap dehiscence was observed in two studies in 12% of the GTR treated sites and in 10.3% of those treated with EMD. Membrane exposure was evaluated in five studies and was registered in the 28.8% of the defects, while no dehiscence was reported on the EMD group. Swelling was reported only in one study in 8/16 GTR sites and 7/16 EMD sites. Due to considerable heterogeneity of parameters no meta-analysis was possible. CONCLUSIONS: Due to considerable heterogeneity of the published studies a clear beneficial effect of the EMD on the early wound healing outcomes after surgical treatment of periodontal intrabony defects cannot be confirmed. Standardized RCT studies are needed in order to allow for proper comparison of early wound healing after both types of surgical approaches.

The Latin American experience of allografting patients with severe aplastic anaemia: real-world data on the impact of stem cell source and ATG administration in HLA-identical sibling transplants.

We studied 298 patients with severe aplastic anaemia (SAA) allografted in four Latin American countries. The source of cells was bone marrow (BM) in 94 patients and PBSCs in 204 patients. Engraftment failed in 8.1% of recipients with no difference between BM and PBSCs (P=0.08). Incidence of acute GvHD (aGvHD) for BM and PBSCs was 30% vs 32% (P=0.18), and for grades III-IV was 2.6% vs 11.6% (P=0.01). Chronic GvHD (cGvHD) between BM and PBSCs was 37% vs 59% (P=0.002) and extensive 5% vs 23.6% (P=0.01). OS was 74% vs 76% for BM vs PBSCs (P=0.95). Event-free survival was superior in patients conditioned with anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG)-based regimens compared with other regimens (79% vs 61%, P=0.001) as excessive secondary graft failure was seen with other regimens (10% vs 26%, P=0.005) respectively. In multivariate analysis, aGvHD II-IV (hazard ratio (HR) 2.50, confidence interval (CI) 1.1-5.6, P=0.02) and aGvHD III-IV (HR 8.3 CI 3.4-20.2, P<0.001) proved to be independent negative predictors of survival. In conclusion, BM as a source of cells and ATG-based regimens should be standard because of higher GvHD incidence with PBSCs, although the latter combining with ATG in the conditioning regimen could be an option in selected high-risk patients.

Mengiomas / Mengiomas

Este artículo contempla una revisión de la literatura sobre la patogénesis e histopatología de los meningiomas y su comportamiento radiológico; las clasificaciones en tipos histológicos y de la Organización Mundial de la Salud que permite establecer las características tumorales para conocer su comportamiento y probabilidades de recurrencia. Dentro de los factores predisponentes está el antecedente de tratamientos con radioterapia, enfermedades genéticas como la Neurofibromatosis tipo 2 y defectos del Cromosoma 22. Las características radiológicas tales como lobulaciones, extensión del edema peritumoral, tamaño del tumor, la delimitación tumoral con respecto al parenquima subyacente entre otros son, importantes para tratar de establecer el comportamiento biológico de estos tumores y en algunos casos predecir el tipo histológico. Se presentan los casos ilustrados con su resumen clínico, imagenes radiológicas y su respectiva histopatología como primera etapa de este estudio prospectivo de un año. Palabras clave: Tumores cerebrales, meningioma, comportamiento biológico, edema peritumoral

Odontogénesis temprana en la oveja (ovis aries) / Early odontogenesis of the sheep

Se realizó un estudio histológico e histoquímico del proceso de odontogénesis en las etapas precoces del desarrollo de la oveja, en cortes seriados teñidos con técnicas corrientes e histoquímicas. Los gérmenes dentarios correspondientes a la mandíbula inferior y a la región molar del maxilar presentan un desarrollo similar al que se observa en otros mamíferos. Llama la atención que durante el primer trimestre de gestación, en la región del futuro diastema se forma una prolongación epitelial efímera, que toma forma de una lámina dentaria contínua con un esbozo dentario en etapa de yema, que luego regresa completamente. En el desarrollo dentario temprano, interacciones epitelio-mesenquimáticas son necesarias para la diferenciación morfológica. En este caso, las propiedades formadoras de diente se manifiestan de modo distinto en la región del futuro diastema de la oveja, en la que es probable que las interacciones estén alteradas. El origen del diastema se puede interpretar como una reducción filogenética secundaria trazada en el desarrollo ontogenético