Re: Re: response to donor fascia from a parent

[Guest guest]

> Also, does anyone know what the fascia looks like? Jasmine dr.

> described it as follows:

> When you buy steaks, beef steaks or pork steaks, on top of the meat

> there is a thin, white skin like substance...almost encasing the

> meat. This is the fascia lata. This thin, clear, white, stretchy

> material on the meat. Her dr. said that it is this material that is

> snipped off from the leg and inserted under the brows.

That matches my feeble understanding, too.

Here's a non-gory picture (from a tissue bank):

http://www.accesslifenet.org/allografts/readigraft/features/fascia_lata.php

The fascia lata is part of the deep fascia of the thigh:

http://www.answers.com/topic/fascia,

http://education./reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=128#2

and

http://www.fasthealth.com/dictionary/d/deep_fascia.php

It's not a muscle as such, but acts as a coating or infrastructure for

the muscles, as you have described. (Just to add confusion, there IS a

thigh muscle called the tensor fasciae latae, but I digress)

This stuff has some useful properties:

(1) Tough. Its purpose on muscles is to hold the muscle and help it keep

its shape without tearing under stress. Being tough, it will keep our

eyes open for decades. My surgeon tests it by trying to break it (if he

can't, it's good).

(2) Slippery. It helps one muscle slide against another, or, in our

case, the sling slides against the lid and brow and whatever's between them.

(3) Dead(-ish). It's an inert-ish sort of stuff (like hair or

fingernails), so rejection (if it came from someone else's body) or

absorbtion is less of an issue, it doesn't need a blood supply, it won't

decay, etc.

(4) Long. To reach fom the upper brow down to the bottom of one's

eyelid, along it, and then back up again, requires a longish piece of

tissue. Hence, the thigh is a good place to dig a fascia mine.

(5) Natural. 'nuff said.

etc...

I've probably gotten some of this wrong, but it's a start.

Rob W.

> Well, I hope this helps to clarify what materials to be used. And

> personally, I rather have the fascia for Jasmine's sling based upon

> my own experience.

> Cheers,

> Min

[Guest guest]

Thanks for posting this. I had no idea what it looked

like.

:)April

PS - Rob you crack me up!

--- Rob <r.watson@...> wrote:

> > Also, does anyone know what the fascia looks like?

> Jasmine dr.

> > described it as follows:

> > When you buy steaks, beef steaks or pork steaks,

> on top of the meat

> > there is a thin, white skin like

> substance...almost encasing the

> > meat. This is the fascia lata. This thin, clear,

> white, stretchy

> > material on the meat. Her dr. said that it is

> this material that is

> > snipped off from the leg and inserted under the

> brows.

>

> That matches my feeble understanding, too.

>

> Here's a non-gory picture (from a tissue bank):

>

http://www.accesslifenet.org/allografts/readigraft/features/fascia_lata.php

>

> The fascia lata is part of the deep fascia of the

> thigh:

> http://www.answers.com/topic/fascia,

>

http://education./reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=128#2

> and

>

http://www.fasthealth.com/dictionary/d/deep_fascia.php

>

> It's not a muscle as such, but acts as a coating or

> infrastructure for

> the muscles, as you have described. (Just to add

> confusion, there IS a

> thigh muscle called the tensor fasciae latae, but I

> digress)

>

> This stuff has some useful properties:

> (1) Tough. Its purpose on muscles is to hold the

> muscle and help it keep

> its shape without tearing under stress. Being tough,

> it will keep our

> eyes open for decades. My surgeon tests it by trying

> to break it (if he

> can't, it's good).

> (2) Slippery. It helps one muscle slide against

> another, or, in our

> case, the sling slides against the lid and brow and

> whatever's between them.

> (3) Dead(-ish). It's an inert-ish sort of stuff

> (like hair or

> fingernails), so rejection (if it came from someone

> else's body) or

> absorbtion is less of an issue, it doesn't need a

> blood supply, it won't

> decay, etc.

> (4) Long. To reach fom the upper brow down to the

> bottom of one's

> eyelid, along it, and then back up again, requires a

> longish piece of

> tissue. Hence, the thigh is a good place to dig a

> fascia mine.

> (5) Natural. 'nuff said.

> etc...

>

> I've probably gotten some of this wrong, but it's a

> start.

>

> Rob W.

>

> > Well, I hope this helps to clarify what materials

> to be used. And

> > personally, I rather have the fascia for Jasmine's

> sling based upon

> > my own experience.

> > Cheers,

> > Min

>

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