NIH R01 · 2025
Technologies that can closely monitor surgical recovery and wound healing for timely, proactive treatments represent an essential keystone to developing next-generation personalized medicine that can further reduce patient pain, prevent morbidity and death, and improve individual wellbeing. Microsurgical tissue transfer entails surgical elevation of a portion of tissue (or flap) based upon its defined vascular supply in the form of a single artery and vein. While this reconstructive strategy is well-accepted, failures do occur and almost always result from early microvascular thrombosis. This flap-threatening event occurs in 6-14% of cases, and if untreated flap necrosis and reconstructive…
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