In 2007, Ms. Meftah said, she developed a wound infection after the delivery of her son by Caesarean section, and in 2009 she had complications during and after a second pregnancy.
We developed a wound model in immunodeficient rodent and treated it with engineered vascularized constructs from endothelial progenitors or early vascular cells-derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) reprogrammed either from healthy donor or type-1 diabetic patient.
Ortec International, a start-up company based in New York that has developed a wound treatment product containing live human skin cells, said yesterday that it had hired a sales force from PDI, a health products marketing specialist, to market the new product to the 150 or so hospitals with major centers for the treatment of burn victims.
Ten patients (3.4%) developed a wound infection.
One of these eyes progressed to endophthalmitis after developing a wound separation related to the suture infection.
One patient with severe Streptococcus pyogenes keratitis and endophthalmitis underwent a primary enucleation after developing a wound dehiscence.
RESULTS: Four hundred thirty-one patients met inclusion criteria; 192 (44.6%) received dexamethasone (4-12 mg) and 31.1% developed a wound complication.
Zengjie et al. have developed a wound dressing material comprising a Ag/graphene polymer hydrogel for the effective killing of bacteria and the acceleration of wound healing [54].
In unadjusted analysis, there was no difference in the risk of developing a wound complication based on dexamethasone exposure; 53 of 192 patients (27.6%) who received dexamethasone developed a wound complication, compared with 81 of 239 (33.9%) who did not receive dexamethasone: odds ratio (OR) (95% confidence interval [CI]) = 0.74 (0.49, 1.13), P = 0.16.
Of patients who developed a wound complication, there was no difference in the need for IV antibiotics, vacuum-assisted wound closure, or in the rate of fascial dehiscence based on dexamethasone exposure.
And in another case, a 48-year-old obese woman developed a wound abscess six weeks after a hysterectomy for endometrial cancer.
