Power Boosting the Grafts in Hair Transplantation Surgery*

In a 1998 study, researchers investigated a new storage medium's impact on hair micrograft survival. They used 200 human anagen hair follicles from ten male patients, dividing them into a control group (100 follicles in saline) and an experimental group (100 follicles in a medium with adenosine triphosphate-magnesium chloride and deferoxamine mesylate). After five hours of preservation and ten days of culture, the experimental group showed a 98% survival rate, significantly higher than the control group's 87%. The study suggested that "metabolic preconditioning" with this medium could improve hair graft survival in transplantation surgery, but emphasized the need for in vivo studies to confirm the findings. The document also discussed the challenges in hair transplantation, such as graft fragility and the need for improved preservation methods, and proposed that the study's in-vitro model could be valuable for objectively evaluating factors affecting graft growth.