Urethra Reconstruction with Tissue-Engineering Technology

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Urethral stricture is a disease characterized by a pathological narrowing of the urethra. Treatment for this condition often requires surgery using autologous grafts (urethroplasty). It is common practice to use patient’s own tissue like genital and extragenital skin, tunica vaginalis, buccal mucosa as a source of the graft. Alternative and safer approach is to use tissue-engineered graft created in a laboratory using patient’s autologous cells and biocompatible matrix (scaffold). The article presents the up-to-date achievements in lab-created tissue-engineered graft, describes all components needed to build a tissue-engineered structure of the graft for urethroplasty, and summarizes authors’ thoughts on advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to choose both cellular component and the matrix of future construction. The article reviews clinical studies conducted in the field of tissue engineering of the graft material for urethraplasty.

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I. A. Vasyutin

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: ivasyutin@yahoo.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0594-7423

Аспирант кафедры гистологии, цитологии и эмбриологии лечебного факультета, младший научный сотрудник Института регенеративной медицины.

Адрес: 119991, Москва, ул. Трубецкая, д. 8, стр. 2.

SPIN-код: 1872-8347

Russian Federation

A. V. Lyundup

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Email: lyundup@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0102-5491

Кандидат медицинских наук, заведующий отделом передовых клеточных технологий Института регенеративной медицины.

Адрес: 119991, Москва, ул. Трубецкая, д. 8, стр. 2

SPIN-код: 4954-3004

A. Z. Vinarov

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Email: avinarov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9510-9487

Доктор медицинских наук, профессор, главный научный сотрудник НИИ уронефрологии и репродуктивного здоровья человека. 

Адрес: 119435, Москва, ул. Большая Пироговская, д. 2, стр. 1.

SPIN-код: 5174-2233

D. V. Butnaru

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Email: butnaru_dv@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2173-0566

Кандидат медицинских наук, директор Института регенеративной медицины.

Адрес: 119991, Москва, ул. Трубецкая, д. 8, стр. 2.

SPIN-код: 2408-5133

S. L. Kuznetsov

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Email: vakmedbiol@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0704-1660

Доктор медицинских наук, профессор, член-корр. РАН, заведующий кафедрой гистологии, цитологии и эмбриологии лечебного факультета.

Адрес: 125009, Москва, ул. Моховая, д. 11, стр. 3.

SPIN-код: 3824-2646

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