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Utilization of Leech Therapy after Rhinoplasty
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2022Background: The use of medicinal leeches in modern reconstructive surgery is well-described. Leech therapy after rhinoplasty has not been previously well-characterized. Methods: The medical records of all patients who underwent open rhinoplasty by a single surgeon over a 4-year ...
Julie P, Shtraks +2 more
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Leech Therapy in Digital Replantation
AORN Journal, 1995ABSTRACTThis article presents a protocol for the perioperative care of patients undergoing digital replantation, which is the most common microsurgical procedure performed today. Venous congestion, a common complication of digital replantation, often has been treated through surgical exploration and creation of arteriovenous anastomosis. Leech therapy,
M A, Golden, J J, Quinn, M T, Partington
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Leech Therapy for Complex Facial Lacerations
Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 2020Abstract Facial trauma can pose challenging reconstructive obstacles in both maintaining tissue viability and restoring aesthetic appearance. Medicinal leech therapy can help to promote vascular decompression in the setting of venous congestion.
Cohn, Jason E +5 more
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Leech Therapy in Reconstructive Maxillofacial Surgery
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2012Corrective plastic surgery is indicated after accidents, burns, cancer surgery, or postoperative wound healing disorders with large tissue defects. The range of reconstructive techniques includes local skin flaps, pedicle grafts, and microvascular anastomosed flaps in the case of large defects.
Alexander, Gröbe +5 more
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Leech Therapy in the Head and Neck
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryLeech therapy has been used in medicine since ancient times for varying indications. More recently, it has come back into favor for treating venous congestion of surgical sites; however, there is limited data on the number of leeches and application techniques for the head and neck region compared with other anatomical subsites.This study's purpose was
Gabrielle Moen, Jasjit Dillon
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1994
Tissues threatened by venous congestion often can be saved by timely leech therapy. Methods to restimulate sated leeches, particularly emergently, are only poorly described in the nineteenth-century literature. Sated leeches were purged of their blood meals by (1) posterior crop incision, (2) hypertonic saline (3 percent) immersion, (3) gentle finger ...
B R, West, L S, Nichter, D E, Halpern
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Tissues threatened by venous congestion often can be saved by timely leech therapy. Methods to restimulate sated leeches, particularly emergently, are only poorly described in the nineteenth-century literature. Sated leeches were purged of their blood meals by (1) posterior crop incision, (2) hypertonic saline (3 percent) immersion, (3) gentle finger ...
B R, West, L S, Nichter, D E, Halpern
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Medicinal Leech Therapy: A Case Study
Orthopaedic Nursing, 1989Essential to the outcome of the replantation of digits is adequate arterial inflow and venous outflow. A nonoperative solution to the problem of venous insufficiency is leeching. The leech relieves venous congestion while attached, as the hirudin released by the leech continues to decongest the digit for 1-2 more hours.
C A, Baker, D A, Nayduch
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Platelet Aggregation and Coagulation Inhibitors in Leech Saliva and Their Roles in Leech Therapy
Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, 1996Prolonged bleeding by the host after the leech ceases to feed and several reports that the use of leeches restores blood flow in the microcirculation after plastic surgery led us to search for inhibitors of platelet aggregation in Hirudo medicinalis saliva.
M, Rigbi, M, Orevi, A, Eldor
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Medicinal Leech Therapy: Friend or Foe
Plastic Surgical Nursing, 2016Leech therapy is the ancient practice of bloodletting or bloodsucking and is considered one of the oldest medical practices known. Its use has spanned centuries and is still used in plastic surgery practices today when performing free flaps and replants.
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The role of leech water sampling in choice of prophylactic antibiotics in medical leech therapy
Microsurgery, 2013AbstractMedical leech therapy (MLT) with Hirudo medicinalis is well established as a treatment for venous congestion of tissue flaps, grafts, and replants. Unfortunately, this treatment is associated with surgical site infections with bacterial species, most commonly Aeromonas hydrophila, which is an obligate symbiot of H. medicinalis. For this reason,
Amanda, Wilmer +4 more
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