Surgical Wounds

Turning the Tide: A Novel Approach to Calciphylaxis Wound Care Using Hypochlorous Acid

Introduction: Calciphylaxis, or calcific uremic arteriolopathy, presents a significant treatment challenge due toits severe pain, chronic wounds, and high mortality. Standard treatments, ...

11/01/2024

Flexor Digitorum Brevis Muscle Flap to Treat Non-Healing Heel Wound with Underlying Chronic Osteomyelitis

Introduction: Heel wounds secondary to osteomyelitis present a unique challenge to a surgeon. In the presented case, the patient had a heel wound secondary to chronic osteomyelitis of the...

11/01/2024

Application of Fragmented Fish Skin Graft* on Nonhealing Diabetic Foot Ulcers for a Diabetic Patient with Congestive Heart Failure

Introduction: Fish skin graft (FSG) is a xenograft derived from Atlantic cod that augments wound healing1. This case evaluates FSG* in a patient with non healing diabetic foot ulcers (DF...

11/01/2024

Application of Fragmented Fish Skin Graft* on Nonhealing Diabetic Foot Ulcers for a Diabetic, Wheelchair-Bound Patient with Neuropathy and Previous Stroke

Introduction: Fish skin graft (FSG) is a xenograft derived from Atlantic cod that augments wound healing1. This case evaluates FSG* in a patient with nonhealing diabetic foot ulcers (DFU)...

11/01/2024

Application of Fragmented Fish Skin Graft* on a Nonhealing Diabetic Foot Ulcer for a Diabetic Patient with Neuropathy and Chronic Kidney Disease

Introduction: Fish skin graft (FSG) is a xenograft derived from Atlantic cod that augments wound healing1. This case evaluates FSG* in a patient with non healing diabetic foot ulcer (DFU...

11/01/2024

Initial Experience with a Novel Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Peel and Place Dressing in Lower Extremity Wounds

Introduction: The application of negative pressure wound therapy to support healing of lower extremity wounds is well-documented.1 A recently available multilayer peel and place dressing ...

11/01/2024

Cryopreserved adipose tissue (CAT) for biological offloading of recalcitrant foot ulcers (FUs)

Introduction: Recalcitrant foot ulcers are increasing in prevalence and often exhaust conventional conservative measures. The risk of a diabetic with a foot ulceration to proceed to an a...

11/01/2024

Use of Aseptically Processed Placental Allograft and Meshed Reticular Acellular Dermal Matrix as Wound Bed Stabilizer and Scaffolding to Support Deep Soft Tissue Reconstruction

Introduction: Trauma to the extremities represents one of the most common injury forms leading to large, full thickness soft tissue loss. Achieving closure after extensive debridement of ...

11/01/2024

Utilizing Transforming Powder Dressing on Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers Refractory to Standard of Care Management: Outcomes of Three Patients

Introduction: Venous leg ulcers (VLU), account for 70% of all leg ulcers, occurring in 1-2% of the general population and in 4% of people 65 years of age and older.1. The average healing ...

11/01/2024

Wound Management of Severe Necrotizing Fasciitis

Introduction: 57-year-old Caucasian male with a past medical history of RCA STEMI and reduced EF%, admitted to the hospital with diagnosed necrotizing fasciitis infection involving his pe...

11/01/2024