This website is intended for healthcare professionals

Research

Intralesional epidermal growth factor therapy in recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers

The data of patients with DFUs were retrospectively analysed. The data of the patients who had had DFUs for at least four weeks and who had been treated in the wound clinic between January 2014 and...

Determination of the effectiveness of Dorema ammoniacum gum on wound healing: an experimental study

Four overlapping phases have been described in the classical model of wound healing and include homeostasis, inflammation, proliferation and re-epithelialisation.20 The haemostasis phase involves the...

Wound healing in second-degree burns in rats treated with silver sulfadiazine: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Fig 1 shows the number of articles published each decade in PubMed for the keyword ‘wound’ from 1945–2021. Fig 2 shows the total number of trials identified and selected based on the inclusion...

Incidence and prevalence of pressure ulcers in hospitals: 10-year cohort study

In this study, the incidence and prevalence of PU in acute hospitals showed a gradual decreasing trend from 2006–2015; however, after the sixth decade, the rates markedly increased until the ninth...

Different therapeutic effects between diabetic and non-diabetic adipose stem cells in diabetic wound healing

The results presented here show that ASC-rich cells can promote wound healing in diabetic and normal rats. In the adipose tissue of diabetic rats, the density of ASCs was lower than in normal rats....

Concurrent validity of biofilm detection by wound blotting on hard-to-heal wounds

This study showed concurrent validity with reference to native PAGE analysis for identifying and quantifying biofilm components through in vitro, in vivo and clinical investigations, as well as...

Benefits of sucrose octasulfate (TLC-NOSF) dressings in the treatment of chronic wounds: a systematic review

A search of three databases was conducted: PubMed, Google Scholar and Cochrane Library between June and August 2020. No search limitations were implemented regarding date and language to ensure...

Convolutional neural networks for wound detection: the role of artificial intelligence in wound care

The parameters of activation, optimiser, learning rate, kernel initialiser loss, loss function and batch size were adjusted for each architecture (Table 1)..

Wound healing activity of Pimpinella anisum methanolic extract in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Cutaneous wounds are diverse, multifactorial, complex and persistent in patients with diabetes.28 Several mechanisms can cause cutaneous wounds, such as poor blood flow and oxygen release due to...

Use of autologous platelet rich fibrin-based bioactive membrane in pressure ulcer healing in rats

PUs can be classified into categories I: pink-red area of the skin phase; II: inflammatory infiltration phase; and III and IV: ulceration phase, which is commonly encountered in clinical practice,...