Letter: chronic non healing wounds and cerebral malaria - for better or for worse?

Management of Chronic Non-healing Wounds by Hirudotherapy

A chronic wound is a wound that does not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time or wounds that do not heal within three months are often considered chronic. Chronic wounds often remain in the inflammatory stage for too long and may never heal or may take years. Chronic wound patients often report pain as dominant in their lives. Persistent pain is the main problem ...

THE EFFECT OF PHENYTOIN ON HEALING OF WAR AND NON-WAR INTRACTABLE WOUNDS

Phenytoin (PHT), a drug in clinical use for over fifty years as an anticonvulsant, has heen reported to promote the healing of skin and soft tissue wounds, ulcers and second degree burns. We treated 19 patients with war-related missile wounds and 6 with chronic, non-healing (previously treated at least for.') months with antibiotics and betadine or acetic acid dressing) civilian ulcers wit...

Management of Large Chronic Non-healing Wounds by Autogenous Platelet Rich Plasma and Reconstructive Surgery in Three Cats

Case Description- Three domestic short haired cats (2, 5 and 4 years of age) were presented to the Madras Veterinary College Teaching Hospital, with the history of large chronic, full thickness wounds on the right lateral cervical, left caudal forearm and right lateral thoracic region respectively. Etiology of the wounds was trauma in two cases and thermal burns in the third ca...

مدل‌ها و روش‌های حیوانی ترمیم زخم: مقاله مروری

Wound healing and reduction of its recovery time is one of the most important issues in medicine. Wound is defined as disruption of anatomy and function of normal skin. This injury could be the result of physical elements such as  surgical incision, hit or pressure cut of the skin and gunshot wound. Chemical or caustic burn is another category of wound causes that can be induced by acid or base...

The Use of Citric Acid for the Treatment of Chronic Non-Healing Sinus