@article {1935,
	title = {Biomaterials for topical and transdermal drug delivery in reconstructive transplantation.},
	journal = {Nanomedicine (Lond)},
	year = {2019},
	month = {2019 Oct 23},
	abstract = {<p>Lifelong systemic immunosuppression remains the biggest challenge in vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) due to the adverse effects it causes. Since VCA is a life-enhancing procedure as compared with solid organ transplant which is life-saving;\&nbsp;one needs to weigh the benefits and risks carefully. Thus, there is a huge unmet clinical need to design biomaterial-based vehicles that can deliver drugs more efficiently, topically and locally to eliminate adverse effects of systemic immune suppression. This review discusses several biomaterial-based systems that have been carefully designed, conceived and attempted to make VCA a more patient compliant approach. Variety of promising preclinical studies has shown the feasibility of the approaches, and clinical trials are required to bridge the gap. Several challenges for the future and new approaches have been discussed.</p>
},
	issn = {1748-6963},
	doi = {10.2217/nnm-2019-0137},
	author = {Dhayani, Ashish and Kalita, Sanjeeb and Mahato, Manohar and Srinath, Preethem and Vemula, Praveen K}
}
