Chronic Wounds, Wound Dressings and Wound Healing [1st ed.] 3030106977, 9783030106973, 9783030106980

Table of contents :
PART 1: VASCULAR SURGERY

PROSPECTIVE VALIDATION OF A PREDICTIVE SCORING SYSTEM FOR DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION AFTER ROUTINE BILATERAL INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFTING.- DEEP STERNAL INFECTION FOLLOWING BILATERAL INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFTING.- PEDICLED AND SKELETONIZED SINGLE AND BILATERAL INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFTS AND THE INCIDENCE OF STERNAL WOUND COMPLICATIONS.- DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY: MANAGEMENT AND RISK FACTOR ANALYSIS FOR MORTALITY.- NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY FOR HIGH-RISK WOUNDS IN LOWER EXTREMITY REVASCULARIZATION.- VACUUM-ASSISTED WOUND CLOSURE IN VASCULAR SURGERY.- BIOFILM IN INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS, EVIDENCE AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS.- A META-ANALYSIS OF PLATELET GEL FOR PREVENTION OF STERNAL WOUND INFECTIONS FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY.- PREDICTORS OF DELAYED WOUND HEALING AFTER ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY OF ISOLATED INFRAPOPLITEAL LESIONS UNDERLYING CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA IN PATIENTS WITH HIGH PREVALENCE OF DIABETES MELLITUS AND HEMODIALYSIS.- BILATERAL INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY HARVEST AND DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION IN DIABETIC PATIENTS.- ROLE OF TOPICAL APPLICATION OF GENTAMICIN CONTAINING COLLAGEN IMPLANTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY.- DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY.- SCORING SYSTEM TO GUIDE DECISION MAKING FOR THE USE OF GENTAMICIN-IMPREGNATED COLLAGEN SPONGE TO PREVENT DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION.

PART 2: NEUROSURGERY

WOUND MANAGEMENT AND WOUND INFECTIONS IN NEUROSURGERY.- CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CEMENT CRANIOPLASTY DECREASES THE RATE OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAK AND WOUND INFECTION COMPARED WITH TITANIUM MESH CRANIOPLASTY.

PART 3: LOWER EXTREMITY ULCERS

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF WOUND HEALING AND ALTERATIONS IN VENOUS LEG ULCERS.- CRITICAL EVALUATION OF DELAYED HEALING OF VENOUS LEG ULCERS.

PART 4: ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY IN THE BIOFILM AGE.- DEVELOPMENT OF SUBERIN FATTY ACIDS AND CHLORAMPHENICOL-LOADED ANTIMICROBIAL ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBROUS MATS INTENDED FOR WOUND THERAPY.- PHARMACOKINETICS OF LEVOFLOXACIN IN BURN INJURY PATIENTS.- BACTERIOLOGY OF NAJA ATRA SNAKEBITE WOUND AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY.

PART 5: WOUND ASSESSMENT, CARE, MEASUREMENT NONINVASIVE IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR CUTANEOUS WOUND ASSESSMENT.- WOUND CARE IN THE HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE SETTING.- MANAGING PATIENTS WITH FISTULAS.- MOREL-LAVALLÉE LESION: A CLOSED DEGLOVING INJURY THAT REQUIRES REAL ATTENTION.- MANAGING WOUNDS IN CANCER PATIENTS.- THE ROLE OF INADINE IN WOUND CARE: A CONSENSUS DOCUMENT.- THE USE OF AUTOLOGOUS FAT GRAFTING FOR TREATMENT OF SCAR TISSUE AND SCAR-RELATED CONDITIONS.- THE RELIABILITY OF A NOVEL MOBILE 3-DIMENSIONAL WOUND MEASUREMENT DEVICE.- NON-INVASIVE OBJECTIVE DEVICES FOR MONITORING THE INFLAMMATORY, PROLIFERATIVE AND REMODELLING PHASES OF CUTANEOUS WOUND HEALING AND SKIN SCARRING.- STEREOLOGICAL QUANTIFICATION OF CELL-CYCLE KINETICS AND MOBILIZATION OF EPITHELIAL STEM CELLS DURING WOUND HEALING.
PART 6: WOUND REPAIR

RECONSTRUCTIVE OPTIONS OF ABDOMINAL WOUNDS IN THE SETTING OF ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECTS AND HERNIA.- USE OF A NOVEL ACELLULAR DERMAL MATRIX ALLOGRAFT TO TREAT COMPLEX TRAUMA WOUND.- RADIATION WOUNDS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT: RECONSTRUCTIVE OPTIONS.- PRE-VASCULARIZATION ENHANCES THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL SHEETS IN FULL THICKNESS SKIN WOUND REPAIR.- IS IT POSSIBLE TO USE AUTOLOGOUS ADIPOSE GRAFT FOR WOUND REPAIR IN PATIENTS WITH COAGULATION DISORDERS?.- A NOVEL RETICULAR DERMAL GRAFT LEVERAGES ARCHITECTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES TO SUPPORT WOUND REPAIR. - CULTURAL ADAPTATION AND VALIDATION OF THE FREIBURG LIFE QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN CHRONIC WOUNDS.