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Wound healing

Tight glycaemic control and surgical site infections post cardiac surgery: a systematic review

We thoroughly reviewed studies that investigated the different glycaemic control conditions using CII with the incidence of SSIs in patients with...

Maggot debridement therapy to treat hard-to-heal diabetic foot ulcers: a single-centre study

Participants were recruited via convenient sampling from patients attending the Wound Care Clinic at Kuala Lumpur General Hospital for diabetic foot...

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...

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...

Management of incontinence-associated dermatitis with topical antibiotics and antifungal medication

Patients with grade 2 IAD treated with a combination of topical antibiotic (Biomycin, CBC Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical, Taiwan) and topical...

Comparison of topical honey and povidone iodine-based dressings for wound healing: a systematic review and meta-analysis

This systematic review and meta-analysis were carried out according to PRISMA guidelines.41.

Use of TIME in treating a hard-to-heal localised scleroderma wound

The patient was a 44-year-old male with a diagnosis of localised scleroderma for five years. He had a smoking history of 20 years, averaging 10...

Use of a biosynthetic wound dressing to treat burns: a systematic review

In this systematic literature review, ‘Suprathel’, ‘effectiveness’, ‘safety’, and ‘cost’ were selected as keywords. Possible synonyms and alternative...

Extra-wound fixation: a modified tie-over dressing technique for skin graft

The medical records of 38 patients (30 male and eight female patients) aged 15–38 years (mean=25.4 years)were retrospectively analysed. Of these, 19...

Treating hard-to-heal ulcers: biocellulose with nanosilver compared with silver sulfadiazine

A prospective, randomised control trial was conducted at the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Prince of Songkla University,...

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...

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...