Abstract:
:Objective: To determine the utility of instillation negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in achieving eradication of infection and definitive wound closure in patients with infected left ventricular assist device (LVAD). Approach: A retrospective review was performed in a series of patients with infected and exposed LVADs who were treated with instillation NPWT in conjunction with surgical debridement. Results: Three consecutive patients were included who developed periprosthetic infection subsequent to LVAD implantation. In all cases, the utilization of a vacuum-assisted closure with instillation (VACi) along with surgical debridement and IV antibiotics eradicated infection resulting in successful retention of hardware. Cases 1 and 2 received definitive wound closure within 3 and 12 days of starting treatment, respectively. Case 3 initially deferred surgery in favor of local wound care. Eventually the patient elected for surgical treatment and underwent closure 164 days after initial presentation. All three patients healed completely without residual evidence of infection. Flap reconstruction with a pedicled rectus flap was used to achieve definitive closure in all patients. One patient subsequently required pump replacement secondary to thrombosis and mechanical pump failure. Innovation: LVAD infections are met with high morbidity and mortality rates, and timely salvage is critical. In this initial series, VACi has proven a viable therapy option to help control and eradicate infection without LVAD removal. Conclusion: This series illustrates the value of newer techniques such as VACi in combination with surgical debridement and antibiotic therapy in effectively salvaging LVADs that were infected.
journal_name
Adv Wound Care (New Rochelle)journal_title
Advances in wound careauthors
Hodson T,West JM,Poteet SJ,Lee PH,Valerio ILdoi
10.1089/wound.2018.0832subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-03-01 00:00:00pages
118-124issue
3eissn
2162-1918issn
2162-1934pii
10.1089/wound.2018.0832journal_volume
8pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Significance: Pressure ulcers (PUs) in newborns and children are remarkably different from those in adults, both in their possible causal factors and in the etiology and biomechanical pathways for tissue damage. Recent Advances: Pediatric muscle and fat tissue structures are overall softer than those of adults, making...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2015.0639
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PROBLEM:Lower extremity ulcers (venous, diabetic) are often unresponsive to standard treatment. Various systemic and local cellular, vascular, and anatomical factors can result in nonhealing wounds that are refractory to normal healing processes and standard care. SOLUTION:Several published wound care guidelines stron...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2011.0290
更新日期:2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: The use of noncultured autologous stromal vascular fraction or clinical grade adipose-derived regenerative cells (ADRCs) is a promising strategy to promote wound healing and tissue repair. Nevertheless, issues regarding the optimal mode of administration remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to comp...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2015.0672
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:SIGNIFICANCE:Postnatal vasculogenesis mediated via endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) contributes to re-endothelialization and augments neovascularization after ischemia and tissue injury, providing a novel therapeutic application. However, controversy exists with respect to the origin, identification, and contributio...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2012.0398
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: For over 30 years, there has been sustained interest in the development of mathematical models for investigating the complex mechanisms underlying each stage of the wound healing process. Despite the immense associated challenges, such models have helped usher in a paradigm shift in wound healing researc...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2019.1132
更新日期:2020-09-11 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: To investigate the safety, feasibility, and acceptability of a novel treatment, intermittent electrical stimulation (IES), for preventing deep tissue injury (DTI) in different healthcare settings. Approach: Testing was conducted in an acute rehabilitation unit of a general hospital, a tertiary rehabilitatio...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2014.0569
更新日期:2015-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Microtubules (MTs) are intracellular polymers that provide structure to the cell, serve as railways for intracellular transport, and regulate many cellular activities, including cell migration. The dynamicity and function of the MT cytoskeleton are determined in large part by its regulatory proteins, including the rec...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2018.0827
更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are susceptible to microbial invasion, and serious complications can result without the timely control of infection. Diagnosis of wound infection is primarily based on subjective clinical characteristics and patient-reported symptoms, and the treatment with antimicrobials has not...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2014.0535
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: There are no safety or absorption studies to guide topical timolol therapy for treatment of chronic wounds. This study was undertaken to address this gap. Approach: A prospective, observational, cross-sectional comparative study of timolol plasma levels in patients after topical administration to a chronic ...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2019.0970
更新日期:2019-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: Keloids are benign fibro-proliferative raised dermal lesions that spread beyond the original borders of the wound, continue to grow, rarely regress, and are the most common in pigmented individuals after an abnormal wound healing response. The current treatment failure and respective challenges involved ...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2019.1040
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Oxygen is vital for healing wounds. It is intricately involved in numerous biological processes including cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and protein synthesis, which are required for restoration of tissue function and integrity. Adequate wound tissue oxygenation can trigger healing responses and favorably...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2011.0319
更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Chronic and hard-to-heal wounds are a tremendous burden on our healthcare system and impair the quality of life for millions of people. An emerging focus of regenerative medicine is the development of natural biomaterials that can stimulate tissue formation or repair by recreating the functional and structural propert...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2015.0652
更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::It was once common practice in the treatment of breast cancer for total mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection to be conventionally performed. However, breast-conserving surgery is increasingly being performed with marked improvement in a multidisciplinary treatment approach, including surgery, chemotherapy, ir...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2012.0404
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: Epidermal CD34+ stem cells located in the hair follicle (HF) bulge area are capable of inducing HF neogenesis and enhancing wound healing after transplantation. In this study, we observed CD34+ cells derived from blood directly participate in dermal regeneration during full-thickness excisional wound healin...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2019.0974
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Rationale: The Tight Skin 2 (Tsk2) mouse model of systemic sclerosis (SSc) has many features of human disease, including tight skin, excessive collagen deposition, alterations in the extracellular matrix (ECM), increased elastic fibers, and occurrence of antinuclear antibodies with age. A tight skin phenotype is obser...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2014.0529
更新日期:2014-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: Full-thickness burn wounds require immediate coverage, and the primary clinical approaches comprise of skin allografts and autografts. The use of allografts is often temporary due to the antigenicity of allografts. In contrast, the availability of skin autografts may be limited in large burn injuries. In su...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2019.1108
更新日期:2020-05-28 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: To merge scholarly activity into the curriculum developed for medical students electing a rotation in wound care and/or dermatology. Approach: The authors adapted the unique wound care curriculum developed for medical student rotators and residents to incorporate structured scholarly projects, opportunities...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2013.0504
更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: During wound healing of the skin, keratinocytes should move over while still adhering to their underlying matrix. Thus, mechanistic insights into the wound-healing process require an understanding of the forms and functions of keratinocyte matrix adhesions, specifically focal contacts and hemidesmosomes,...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2013.0489
更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: Angiogenesis is an important phenomenon involved in the healing of chronic wounds, and it is mainly mediated by the release of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from endothelial cells. Electrical stimulation (ES) is a well-documented treatment used to assist the healing of chronic wounds. Due to ...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2013.0427
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: Regulation of cell adhesions during tissue repair is fundamentally important for cell migration, proliferation, and protein production. All cells interact with extracellular matrix proteins with cell surface integrin receptors that convey signals from the environment into the nucleus, regulating gene exp...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2013.0436
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Introduction: Chronic wounds that are difficult to heal are physical and financial burden to the sufferer and a challenge to the treating physician. Objective: The main purpose of this study was to develop a novel method of using bone marrow (BM) aspirate, either cultured or fresh, as early solution for healing of chr...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2016.0704
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: To investigate the caring burden and its determinants of primary informal caregiver of patients with chronic wound. Approach: A prospective cross-sectional study of 132 pairs of chronic wound care recipients and their informal caregivers was included. The characteristics of patients and their informal careg...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2018.0873
更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: Fetal wounds heal with a regenerative phenotype that is indistinguishable from surrounding skin with restored skin integrity. Compared to this benchmark, all postnatal wound healing is impaired and characterized by scar formation. The biologic basis of the fetal regenerative phenotype can serve as a road...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2014.0564
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significance: Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) and pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) emanate from burn-injured tissue and enter systemic circulation. Locally and systemically, they activate pattern-recognition receptors, including toll-like receptors (TLRs), to stimulate cytokine secretion, wh...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2017.0733
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: To inform on the interim results of the Remede d'Or study, which is a prospective, multicenter, single-blind, randomized, controlled clinical study on the safety and efficacy of RMD-G1, a topical carbopol-based hydrogel with a fibronectin matrix whose active pharmaceutical ingredient is erythropoietin (EPO)...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 新闻
doi:10.1089/wound.2018.0808
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:SIGNIFICANCE:Re-establishment of a functional vascular network is a critical component of successful wound repair. One of the most potent pro-angiogenic agents is vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which, from a basic science and pre-clinical perspective, seems ideal for the therapeutic stimulation of blood ves...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2011.0348
更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is currently a pandemic. Although pulmonary health has been the primary focus of studies during the early days of COVID-19, development of a comprehensive understanding of this emergent disease requi...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2020.1309
更新日期:2021-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:SIGNIFICANCE:Scarring continues to present a significant clinical problem. Wound contraction leads to scarring and is mediated by myofibroblasts and contractile forces across the wound bed. Contracture formation can have a significant impact on the quality of life of the patient, particularly where function and appeara...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 评审
doi:10.1089/wound.2012.0378
更新日期:2013-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: To develop a cost-effective and clinically usable therapy to treat full-thickness skin injuries. We accomplished this by preparing a viscoelastic hydrogel using polyethylene glycol (PEG)-modified platelet-free plasma (PEGylated PFP) combined with human adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs). Approach: PEGylated ...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2018.0844
更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Objective: Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun is known to accelerate the skin aging process and leads to significant alterations in skin biomechanics; however, the molecular mechanisms by which chronic UVB affects biomechanical properties of the skin have not been well described. Approach: A murine model ...
journal_title:Advances in wound care
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1089/wound.2019.1034
更新日期:2020-03-01 00:00:00