Sometime more than 5,000 years ago, man came up with the idea of suturing a wound with a needle and thread. Since then, this surgical principle has not changed much: Depending on the fingertip feeling ...

New findings report that a class of small RNAs (microRNAs), microRNA-29, can restore normal skin structure rather than producing a wound closure by a connective tissue (scar). Any improvement of ...

Barbed sutures have emerged as a transformative innovation in surgical wound closure, offering a knotless design that facilitates more uniform stress distribution and reduces operative time. Developed ...

In patients with diabetic foot ulcers that looked healed and met the current definition of a closed wound, closed ulcers with functionally defective skin that lost more body water were likely to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Multiple debridements and the use of flaps are associated with longer closure times on complex infectious wounds ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with high transepidermal water loss at the closure of a diabetic foot ulcer wound had greater odds for ...

A new diagnostic tool better predicts the recurrence of diabetic foot ulcers, even those that appear fully healed. It measures skin barrier function through a process known as trans-epidermal water ...

In patients with diabetic foot ulcers that looked healed and met the current definition of a closed wound, closed ulcers with functionally defective skin that lost more body water were likely to ...

Chandan Sen, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and chief scientific officer of Wound Healing ...