The effective management of post-operative wounds is important to prevent potential complications such as surgical-site infections and wound dehiscence. The purpose of this study was to treat wound dehiscence in elderly patients who were subjected to orthopaedic surgical interventions. The dehisced wounds were treated with autologous micro-grafts obtained using a promising CE-certified medical ...

Background: Postoperative infections and wound complications are among the main complications of any surgical treatment. Knowledge of patient-specific factors in cases of wound healing disorder, which can ultimately lead to failure of fixation, would allow such complications to be counteracted. Methods: A search of operation records for the period 2005 to 2010, for mandibular fractures treated ...

Wound complications following surgical resection in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy are common and can be a difficult problem to manage. Negative pressure dressing technology appears to be safe and effective in the treatment of radiation-associated wound complications and can be used in the outpatients clinic setting. The presented case demonstrates that negative pressu...

INTRODUCTION Pilonidal sinus is a common infectious process which occurs in buttocks and sacral area which involves a wide range of symptoms that are different from an asymptomatic sinus abscess to acute and chronic sinus track. Basically non-surgical treatment for this disease is not recommended. In this study, we have been compared two methods of primary repair and rotation flap in terms of f...

Postoperative tissue regeneration can be negatively affected by bisphosphonate administration, especially in patients with oncologic diseases. A serious complication of therapy is the medication-related osteonecrosis jaw (MRONJ), which observed mainly after dental surgery. MRONJ a progressive destruction bone that requires to stay hospital for extended periods time. For this reason, primary wou...

BACKGROUND The exact risk that poor glucose control introduces to patients undergoing surgical closure has yet to be fully defined. METHODS The authors retrospectively analyzed a prospectively collected database of patients seen at their wound care center to evaluate the effects of chronic and perioperative glucose control in high-risk patients undergoing surgical wound closure. Hemoglobin A1...

Dear Editors, Recently, an immunocompetent febrile 34-year-old womanwas referred for an exploratory laparoscopy with abdominal flushing and drainage for acute purulent peritonitis sustained by a sigmoid diverticular abscess. Ten days after the intervention, the antibiotic regimen with cefepime, teicoplanin and fluconazole was withdrawn because of the occurrence of profound neutropenia (absolute...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Blunt ocular trauma to a corneal transplanted eye represents a higher risk for wound rupture at the donor-recipient interface. We have evaluated the causes, clinical characteristics, treatment and outcome, particularly the graft's clarity, in patients with traumatic wound dehiscence after penetrating keratoplasty. METHODS Between March 1996 and April 2006, over a period...

The incidence of wound dehiscence and incisional hernia after two methods of abdominal wound closure (layered closure with retention sutures and single-layer "mass closure") was studied in a randomised prospective clinical trial in a consecutive series of 200 patients. Dehiscence occurred in 1% of patients and herniation in 4-7%; the incidence of these complications was similar with both method...