Original title: Innovative Treatment Strategies to Accelerate Wound Healing: Trajectory and Recent Advancements
Wound healing is a set of stages that repair damaged skin and tissue. When healing does not go as it should, wounds can become chronic and more likely to get infected. Standard options include dressings, skin grafts, cells, genes, and growth factors, but no one approach works well for every wound. This review surveys newer options, including tiny therapeutic materials, stem cells, lab-made skin, and 3D-printed skin, along with their benefits and drawbacks.
Imagine trying to mend a torn shirt that keeps coming apart. A quick patch may hold, but different tears need different fixes, and some need more than one kind of repair. In this paper, the shirt is damaged skin, and the review compares familiar and newer ways to help it mend, including ways to build replacement skin.
Chronic wounds can lower patients’ quality of life, raise the risk of infection, and increase illness and death. They also create a major cost for healthcare systems, while their long treatment and complex healing process make care difficult.
The abstract describes this as a review of treatment options, benefits, shortcomings, challenges, and future prospects. It does not report comparative clinical results or establish that any one approach is effective for all chronic wounds.
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Innovative Treatment Strategies to Accelerate Wound Healing: Trajectory and Recent Advancements — Praveen Kolimi, Sagar Narala, Dinesh Nyavanandi et al. — Cells — doi:10.3390/cells11152439
Abstract licence: CC BY
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