With what types of hand injuries can vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) be used? Large wounds with an insufficient bed for skin grafting are most helped with VAC therapy. The negative-pressure environment of VAC helps decrease swelling, remove exudate, promote granulation tissue, and shrink the size of the wound. If a skin graft is applied to a hand wound, VAC application can promote adherence of th...

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BACKGROUND The vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) system has been used to manage complicated wounds. The purpose of this study was to describe a novel technique in using the VAC system for orocutaneous fistulas. METHODS A retrospective study was performed on 10 patients treated at the National Cancer Centre, Singapore, who developed postoperative orocutaneous fistulas. Hydrogum dental paste was us...

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Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) has revolutionized wound care over the last 15 years. Previously, VAC was successfully utilized to support split-skin grafting following orbital exenteration due to malignancy. Here, we report an attempt to use VAC following orbital exenteration due to necrotizing fasciitis of the right eyelid, an infections etiology, in a 73 years old male. Although VAC was previo...

The objectives were to determine whether the amount of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) shed in semen increased in boars experimentally coinfected with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (MHYO), and whether PCV2 vaccination of boars prior to PCV2 exposure reduced PCV2 viremia and virus shedding in semen. Twelve specific-pathogen-free PCV2- and MHYO-naïve boars were randomly and equally assigned to one of...