Ushering in the era of regenerative surgery.

Tissue loss, irrespective of etiology, often requires extensive reconstruction. In many instances, the need exceeds what current treatments and technologies modern medicine can offer. Tissue engineering has made immense strides within the past few decades due to advances in biologics, biomaterials, and manufacturing.

Vascular persistence following precision micropuncture.

Objective: The success of engineered tissues continues to be limited by time to vascularization and perfusion. Recently, we described a simple microsurgical approach, termed micropuncture (MP), which could be used to rapidly vascularize an adjacently placed scaffold from the recipient macrovasculature. Here we studied the long-term persistence of the MP-induced microvasculature.