Ricerc@Sapienza

Fascia lata (FL) is a worldwide adopted source of autologous grafts. In our Department, the endoscopic endonasal transphenoidal surgery (EETS) has been performed regularly for anterior and middle cranial fossa lesions, and FL graft has commonly been a practical resource in repairing tissue defects after EETS.Enough, we used routinely harvesting FL to restore symmetry in facial palsy. To our known, this is the biggest case series about FL harvesting to repare tissue defects after EET.

In 1954, Joseph Murray performed the first successful human organ transplant from a live kidney donor, Richard Herrick, into the donor’s twin, Robert. Since no form of organ preservation was available, the surgeries happen in two simultaneous operating rooms. In this way, the kidney damage subsequent to the lack of blood supply before the vascular anastomoses between Richard’s vessels and Robert’s kidney were confectioned, was reduced to the shortest possible (1). Richard recovered well and died in 1962 for recurrence of his original nephritis disease.