Medicine, custom-made spleen with 3D printing to plan surgery

3D printing to create a model of the spleen tailor-made for a patient, and used in the pre-operative period to precisely plan the methods of the minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery, which allowed the young woman's life to be saved and her health to be preserved. 'organ. The example of integration between advanced technologies in the biomedical and healthcare fields comes from Bio3DModel (SolidWorld Group), which created the 3D printing of the spleen and provided fundamental support to the medical team of the San Giovanni di Dio hospital in Florence, which the operation was completed.

“We held meetings with the surgeons and, once we received the documents such as tomography scans and medical tests, we recreated a very faithful model of the organ in the time of the patient's pre-hospitalisation. Our biomedical engineering team, made up of Federica Giovannini and Paulina Socha prepared the model which included the critical points and relationships of the various anatomies, differentiated by color, necessary for intraoperative guidance”, stated Giovan Battista Semplici, president of Bio3DModel.

“Preserving the spleen in such cases is often challenging, especially when the aneurysm almost enters the spleen – Emiliano Chisci, a vascular surgeon who together with the head of general surgery, Alessandro Anastasi, and led by the director of the surgical department, Stefano Michelagnoli, conducted the operation – However, we managed to preserve the organ by excluding a large aneurysm of the splenic artery”.

Also in 2023 will be Electrospider, a printer capable of reproducing human tissue

3D Printing and 3D Bioprinting is a technology to which the SolidWorld Group has also added 3D bioprinting during 2023. “Thanks to Electrospider, a printer capable of reproducing human tissues – we read in the note – SolidWorld Group is able to provide support to Italian and international hospitals, private clinics, foundations and research institutes in order to simultaneously print both the tissue support structure, made of biocompatible material, using the electrospinning technique, with nanometric thickness, and the cellular hydrogels of different types of human cells”.