For the first time in the Netherlands, a baby with sever Burns Has Been Treated with Cultured Skin Cells. These were cultured using a healthy piece of skin from the child. Never Before Has Such A Young Patient Received This New Treatment.
Burned was in the treated baby, 70 percent of the body surface. The Operation was successful. Doctors from the Burn Center of the Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam Performed the procedure.
Many Skin Cells Can Be Made Turning the Culture. If Burns are treated with cultured Skin Cells, The Chance of Rejection is minimal. The Transplantation Method also Ensures “Faster Healing and Considerly Less Scarring,” The Hospital Sums Up.
“It really makes a differentence for patients with severe, large, or extensive burns and contributes to a better quality of life,” Says trauma and burn surgeon Kees van der Vlies in a statement.
The New Treatment Method is Called Denovoskin. The Maasstad Hospital Clinicular Tested the Technology in Collaboration with the Swiss Biotech Company Cutiss and the Wyss Zurich Research Center.