Telas depolipropileno revestidas por quitosana/polietilenoglicol na ocorrência de aderências peritoniais: Estudo experimental em ratas

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: RODRIGUES, Danilo Ferreira
• Orientador(a): PAULO, Neusa Margarida
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Ciência Animal
• Departamento: Ciências Agrárias - Veterinaria
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: biomateriais; implante; parede abdominal; reação de corpo estranho; sistema de barreira
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: abdominal wall; barrier system; biomaterials; foreign body reaction; implants
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA::CLINICA E CIRURGIA ANIMAL
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/856

Peritoneal adhesions are highly important in clinical and surgical practice because of the potential to cause sequelae such as chronic abdominal pain, infertility and bowel obstruction; thus, preventing the formation of this process becomes a challenge for surgeons. Due to biocompatibility, bioabsorption, healing and antimicrobial properties, chitosan is a polymer which has aroused interest of researchers studying the prevention of peritoneal adhesions. The objective of this research was to determine whether the intraperitoneal implantation of polypropylene mesh coated with a film of chitosan/polyethylene glycol is effective for the prevention of adhesions in rats with induced abdominal defects. We sought to further characterize the tissue reactions in acute and chronic phases of the inflammation process, and the tissue repair processes triggered by this biomaterial and the polypropylene mesh without coating. Defect of about 1cm was made in the abdominal wall, with reference to anatomical aponeurosis of the fascia of the rectus abdominis and obliquus externus abdominis muscles, followed by the implantation of polypropylene meshes coated with chitosan / polyethylene glycol (QP Group, n= 12) and uncoated polypropylene meshes (PP group, n= 12). Six animals from each group were euthanized at four and 45 days after implantation and the involvement of the mesh area by the adhesion, the type of adhesion, the inflammation process and tissue repair, and the quantification and characterization of collagen fibers were evaluated. The average of the meshes involved by adhesions in the QP and PP groups was 39.088% and 84.024%, respectively, and the structure involved in abdominal adhesions in the QP group usually consisted of the omentum around the implant, while in the PP group, adhesions were usually on the surface of the mesh. After four days of surgery, the amount of mononuclear cells was lower in QP, but the amount of polymorphonuclear cells, fibrin and collagen fibers was in greater quantity in this group; besides, the later variable showed better spatial organization. After 45 days of biomaterials implantation, there was a reduction in the amount of inflammatory cells, and spatial organization of collagen fibers in the QP group remained strong. It is concluded that the meshes coated with the film based on chitosan/polyethylene glycol did not prevent adhesion formation, but significantly minimized the seriousness of this process. In the acute phase of inflammation and tissue repair, the foreign body reaction was less intense in the group receiving the coated polypropylene mesh, but the tissue reactions caused by the studied biomaterials were similar to the chronic phase. The mesh coated with film-based chitosan/polyethylene glycol stimulated higher production and better orientation of collagen type I in the acute phase of inflammation and tissue repair, and better orientation of collagen fibers in the chronic phase of this process.