Acute wounds An acute wound is an injury to the skin that occurs suddenly rather than over time. It heals at the predictable and expected rate of the normal wound healing process. Acute wounds can occur anywhere on the body and vary from superficial scratches to deep wounds damaging blood ves...
There are major differences in the way acute and chronic wounds heal. An understanding of these differences enables practitioners to plan more appropriate care and management for patients. A simple framework such as wound bed preparation can be used to identify problems and plan realistic and appropr...
The predisposing factors include neuropathy, which is a common chronic complication of persistent hyperglycemia, affecting the autonomic nervous system render their skin dry, with a loss of the accommodating sweating reflex, furthermore, the sensory loss for touch and minor injuries let them a prey ...
This article discusses the use of a foam dressing for exudate management in both chronic and acute wounds, such as surgical wounds, pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers, trauma wounds, and leg ulcers. The primary objective of the study was to observe patients' wound progression in terms of wound ...
progenitor cell biology together with developments in the field of tissue engineering and molecular diagnostics should not only further advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms regulating wound repair but also offer innovative solutions to promote the healing of chronic and acute wounds in ...
Neutrophils, which are the most abundant white blood cells in humans, have been well established as first responders to acute inflammation. Under normal conditions, neutrophils contribute to resolution and tissue repair by phagocytosing necrotic cells to stop them from attracting more immune cells, re...
It has also been hypothesized that inflammation plays a central role in the wound healing process and in combating infection. Two stages of inflammation exist—acute and chronic inflammation. Acute inflammation is an initial stage of inflammation (innate immunity) mediated through the activation of ...
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Chemokines (CC and CXC) are chemotatic mediators produced in inflamed tissue. They control trafficking of leukocytes under physiological and inflammatory conditions,angiogenesis, and wound healing. They can be divided into subfamilies based on their structural motifs (the position of cysteine re...
Mononuclear cell collection in patients undergoing extra-corporeal photo-chemotherapy for acute and chronic graft-vs.-host-disease (GvHD): comparison between COBE Spectra version 4.7 and 6.0 (AutoPBSC) J Clin Apher, 17 (2002), pp. 65-71 Google Scholar 53 P. Perutelli, L. Rivabella, E. La...