Controlled Comparison of a Traditional Dressing Versus a Biologic Dressing Composed of Fetal Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes in Association With a Collagen Matrix on Skin Donor Sites

Controlled Comparison of a Traditional Dressing Versus a Biologic Dressing Composed of Fetal Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes in Association With a Collagen Matrix on Skin Donor Sites

Cell-based engineered skin substitutes are promising to treat difficult-to-heal acute and chronic wounds such as large/deep burns, ulcers resistant to conventional therapies or surgical wounds. Cultured autologous epidermal cell-based therapy is used for more than two decades as permanent wound coverage for large burns. Although this technique has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with large burn injuries, its clinical use is limited by the creation of a second wound at the donor site, the three-week delay needed to obtain sufficient amounts of cells, and the absence of a dermal component resulting in low graft take and wound contraction.

Concurrently, allogeneic cell-based engineered skin substitutes have been proposed. Where they offer off-the-shelf temporary wound coverage acting as biologically active dressings releasing growth factors, cytokines and extra cellular matrix components essential for proper wound healing, they are susceptible of immune rejection that is their major weakness Fetal skin, before the third trimester of gestational age, heals rapidly without scar formation conversely to adult skin. Minimal inflammation, specific cytokine and growth factor profiles, and faster and organized deposit and turnover of Extra Cellular Matrix (ECM) components during fetal wound healing have been proposed to explain the absence of scar formation. Because of their low immunogenicity, and their unique regeneration properties, fetal skin cells represent an attractive alternative to the commonly used autologous and allogenic cutaneous grafts.

The investigators developed a new healing dressing constituted by a collagen sponge seeded with a specific ratio of active fetal fibroblasts and keratinocytes producing a variety of wound healing growth factors and cytokines which increase the speed of wound healing, induce an immunotolerant state, with a low inflammatory reaction.

This prospective randomized controlled study aims to compare wound healing of CICAFAST versus conventional treatment (JELONET®) in the treatment of split-thickness skin graft donor site at D8. The patient will be his own control.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female or male aged ≥18 years old
• For potentially childbearing female, only those with effective contraception (contraception pill, implant and intrauterine device) could be included
• Patient who need skin graft ( height equal to or greater than 100cm2 and thickness 1.2mm) after surgery excision
• Patients with social security
• Patients able to understand and follow the trial instructions
• Patients who have signed an informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with an history of cancers except basal and squamous cell, cutaneous carcinoma.
• Patients suffering from uncontrolled metabolic disease (for instance diabete), from a psychiatric disorder not treated, with severe arteritis of lower and/or upper limbs, treated with anticoagulant (unless treatment stops 7 days before the surgery), with severe venous insufficiency, suffering of severe polyneuropathy, with known allergy to antibiotics,
• Patients with an allergic predisposition or known allergy to bovine collagen or silicone
• Patients receiving corticosteroids, immunosuppressive or cytotoxic agents unless treatment stops 4 weeks before the surgery
• Patients contraindicated with local anesthetic used in STSG process of his investigator center
• Patients with systemic infection (all grade defined by CTCAE Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event V4.03) at surgery visit will not be included in this trial because of the contraindication of the surgical gesture.
• Patient intolerant to the conventional treatment (JELONET®)
• Patient intolerant to URGO TUL®
• Patient intolerant to TELFA®
• Patient intolerant to the stretchable strip (HYPAFIX® or NYLEX®)
• Pregnant or breast-feeding women
• Patients participating in clinical trial
• Vulnerable people: persons deprived of liberty; under trusteeship or under curatorship