Open AccessVacuum therapy for chronic wounds
Author(s) -
Ekaterina Leonidovna Zaytseva,
Зайцева Екатерина Леонидовна,
Alla Yur'evna Tokmakova,
Токмакова Алла Юрьевна
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
saharnyj diabet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2072-0378
pISSN - 2072-0351
DOI - 10.14341/2072-0351-6085
Subject(s) - diabetology , medicine , diabetes mellitus , etiology , incidence (geometry) , surgery , chronic wound , wound healing , endocrinology , physics , optics
Chronic wound in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most urgent problems of modern diabetology and surgery. Numberof patients suffering from different types of chronic wounds follows increase in DM incidence. Vacuum therapy is a novel perspectivemethod of topical treatment for non-healing chronic wounds of various etiology. Current review addresses experimental and clinicalevidence for this method.