Ulceration of the foot in diabetes is common and disabling and frequently leads to
amputation of the leg. Mortality is high and healed ulcers often recur. The pathogenesis of …

The role of artificial skin substitutes in burn surgery and the treatment of chronic wounds is
constantlyevolving. New products are regularly being produced and approved for clinical …

OBJECTIVE—Peripheral neuropathy is common among people with diabetes and can result
in foot ulceration and amputation. The aim of this study was to quantify the annual medical …

The aim of this study was to estimate the patterns of care and annual levels of health care
resource use attributable to managing diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) in clinical practice by the …

Diabetic foot complications result in huge costs for both society and the individual patients.
Few reports on the health-economic consequences of diabetic foot infections have been …

Normal wound repair is a dynamic and complex process involving multiple coordinated
interactions between growth factors, cytokines, chemokines, and various cells. Any failure …

Background Tissue engineering is an emerging field. Novel bioengineered skin substitutes
and genetically derived growth factors offer innovative approaches to reduce the burden of …

Wound repair and regeneration is a highly complex combination of matrix destruction and
reorganization. Although major hurdles remain, advances during the past generation have …

The Edge Effect: Current Therapeutic Options to Advance the... : Advances in Skin & Wound
Care The Edge Effect: Current Therapeutic Options to Advance the Wound Edge : Advances …

OBJECTIVE: A cost-effectiveness analysis compared the potential economic benefit of an
autologous, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) gel to alternative therapies in treating nonhealing …