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Intact Fragmented Fish Skin Graft as Novel Approach to Filling Sinus Pilonidal Wounds: A Case Series

Introduction: To assess the feasibility of using intact fish skin graft (FSG) to heal chronic post-surgical sinus pilonidal wounds. Pilonidal disease is a common condition of the skin and...

05/26/2022

Intermittent Topical Wound Oxygen Therapy Promotes Closure in Calciphylaxis Wounds

Introduction: Calciphylaxis is a rare disorder that presents with painful, necrotic, ischemic skin and tissue lesions resulting from arteriole calcification and reduced blood flow. Most o...

05/26/2022

Iodophor Foam Dressing Used in Combination with an Esterified Hyaluronic Acid Matrix to Reduce the Risk of Infections and Benefit Wound Healing in Lower Extremity Wounds

Introduction: Infections of lower extremity wounds (LEWs) can often result in sepsis or loss of a limb.1, 2 A multicenter study of elderly patients with chronic LEWs including “hard-to-he...

05/26/2022

Is My Wound Infected? Use of Thermal Imaging to Assess Wound Infection

Introduction: Because the traditional signs of infection, rubor, dolor, calor, and tumor, are shared between incipient infections and aseptic inflammation, discriminating between these en...

05/26/2022

Fish skin graft for definitive healing of large hematoma excisional wound of a patient receiving warfarin treatment: a case study

Introduction: A hematoma is a collection of blood underneath a wound that has been sutured closed. It results from poor coagulation of vessels lacerated during the procedure and presents ...

05/26/2022

Fish Skin Grafts for treatment of difficult to heal chronic wounds

Introduction: Patients with comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus, Crohn's disease, peripheral vascular disease and lymphedema must overcome considerable hurdles during the wound healin...

05/26/2022

Fish-Skin Utilized to promote Granulation tissue in Complicated Surgical Wounds: A Case Series

Introduction:Wound care is often described as an art where the clinician mediates the progression of wounds from onset to healing. Often this is disrupted by extrinsic and intrinsic facto...

05/26/2022

Impact of Remote Wound Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created the urgent need for telehealth to play a larger role in wound care. The high prevalence of comorbidities in the wound care populati...

05/26/2022

Innovative Acellular Fish-Skin Graft for Healing of a Second Ray Amputation Site: A Case Study

Introduction: Ray amputations can be challenging to heal. Failure to heal these types of amputations can result in poor patient outcomes. We present a case in which a diabetic female was ...

05/26/2022

Combination Use Of A Bioresorbable Silver Matrix And An Unna Boot To Treat A Non-Healing Lower Extremity Wound

Background: A 74-year-old female patient presented with a traumatic wound to her left lower leg that was non-healing for 1 month. Previously, she was treated with silver sulfadiazine. On ...

05/26/2022

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