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Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2019 Chronic wounds represent an enormous health, social and economic burden in modern society. With the increasing incidence of diabetes and obesity as well as the ageing of the population, we correspondingly expect a rise in the incidence of chronic wounds.
Skender Veliu +2 more
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Wound dressings: curbing inflammation in chronic wound healing [PDF]
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2021 Chronic wounds represent an economic burden to healthcare systems worldwide and a societal burden to patients, deeply impacting their quality of life. The incidence of recalcitrant wounds has been steadily increasing since the population more susceptible, the elderly and diabetic, are rapidly growing. Chronic wounds are characterised by a delayed wound
Davide Vincenzo Verdolino +3 more
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Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015 Introduction: Chronic wounds represent a major health burden worldwide. It has been hypothesized that the polymicrobial nature of wounds plays an important role in their healing process. Thus, a review of pathogen frequency and susceptibility patterns in
Shin Yee Wong +2 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020 Diabetics chronic wounds are characterized by high levels of oxidative stress (OS) and are often colonized by biofilm-forming bacteria that severely compromise healing and can result in amputation.
Jane H. Kim +7 more
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Antiseptic pyolytics and warming wet compresses improve the prospect of healing chronic wounds
Exploration of Medicine, 2023 Infection and suppuration of chronic wounds reduce the effectiveness of their treatment with a course of antibiotics and antiseptics combined with frequently renewed dressings.
Aleksandr Urakov +6 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 BackgroundChronic wounds are a complex medical problem. With the difficulty of skin healing, the microbial ecology of chronic wounds is an essential factor affecting wound healing.
Hao Meng +7 more
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Health and Society, 2023 Wounds, due to their complexity, end up impairing the functioning of the skin, causing disability or loss of function, in some cases, they can affect the patient’s general condition, especially when not properly treated, which can lead to severe infections or sepsis and lead the individual to the death.
Ana Quitéria Fernandes Ferreira +3 more
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Negative pressure wound therapy: An update
Chinese Journal of Traumatology, 2017 Purpose: To get the maximum benefit of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) in the management of acute and chronic wounds without abuse or misuse. Methods: Fourty one patients were included in the study. Among them, 9 patients had chronic wounds and the rest 32
Ahmed Hassan El-Sabbagh
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Immunology of Acute and Chronic Wound Healing
Biomolecules, 2021 Skin wounds greatly affect the global healthcare system, creating a substantial burden on the economy and society. Moreover, the situation is exacerbated by low healing rates, which in fact are overestimated in reports.
Kamila Raziyeva +5 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 An inability of the human body to heal acute wounds under certain conditions results in the formation of chronic ulcers. Chronic wounds not only cause significant pain and discomfort for patients but also serve as an entry for microorganisms into the ...
Iveta Schmiedova +10 more
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