Outcomes of grafted skin on the dorsum of the foot after car-tire friction injuries
Background A car-tire friction injury on the dorsum of a child’s foot often results in hypertrophic scarring of the wound margins. This study describes the clinical appearance of the injured areas and surgical complications that occurred during the ...
Shin Hyun Kim, Won Jai Lee
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Treatment of complex wounds with PVC prosthesis and autologous partial skin graft: Accelerated and low-cost third-intention healing protocol [PDF]
Introduction: Complex wounds are serious tegumentary injuries that are difficult to resolve with conventional dressings. This study aimed to describe a third-intention wound healing technique, reproducible and low cost, applicable to complex wounds ...
Diego Ariel-de-Lima+6 more
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Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) represents a major cause of allograft dysfunction and results in allograft failure in solid organ transplantation. Cyclic helix B peptide (CHBP) is a novel erythropoietin-derived peptide that ameliorated renal allograft ...
Long Zheng+18 more
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Murine liver allograft transplantation: Tolerance and donor cell chimerism [PDF]
Nonarterialized orthotopic liver transplantation with no immunosuppression was performed in 13 mouse‐strain combinations. Two strain combinations with major histocompatibility complex class I and class II and minor histocompatibility complex disparity ...
Arnold+45 more
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Skin cancers in transplant patients [PDF]
Skin tumors are frequent in transplant patients, and their potential for progression (locoregional recurrences, metastases) is much greater than in the general population. The viral element with HPV probably represents one of the etiologic factors, although other only partially known factors play a role, including the sun and genetic factors.
B Legoux+3 more
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Skin grafts : local quest for viable alternatives to autologous grafts using silk and acellular dermal matrices [PDF]
The gold standard with regards to skin transplantation is the use of the patient’s own skin obtained from a healthy donor site. Such grafts can be either full thickness skin or more commonly nowadays, split thickness skin.
Gialanzè, Yanika+2 more
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Epidemiological profile of nonmelanoma skin cancer in renal transplant recipients: experience of a referral center [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Nonmelanoma skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in humans and also the malignant disease that is increasingly common among kidney transplant recipients.
Flávia Regina Ferreira+3 more
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Immunology of skin transplantation
Untreated viable allogeneic skin is highly immunogenic. Epidermal Langerhans migrate after transplantation out of the donor skin into the lymph node of the recipient where they can activate T cells capable to mediate rejection. Allogeneic skin is used as a temporary coverage of burn wounds, often in combination with autologous skin grafts.
Richters, C.D.+4 more
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Redoable Tie-Over Dressing Using Multiple Loop Silk Threads
After skin grafting, to prevent hematoma or seroma collection at the graft site, a tie-over dressing has been commonly used. However, although the conventional tie-over dressing by suture is a useful method for securing a graft site, refixation is ...
Hyeon Jong Jo+4 more
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Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Using Matriderm In Comparison with a Skin Graft
Background For patients with neuropathy, vasculopathy, and impairment of wound healing, treatment of a diabetic foot ulcer poses many challenges. A large number of dermal analogues have been invented in an effort to overcome these challenges. Matriderm,
Hyojin Jeon+5 more
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