Wound healing disorders after vein harvesting for coronary artery bypass graft surgery increase morbidity and lower patient satisfaction. Low-energy shock wave therapy (SWT) reportedly improves healing of diabetic and vascular ulcers by overexpression of vascular endothelial growth fractor and downregulation of necrosis factor
B. In this study, we investigate whether prophylactic low-energy SWT improves wound...Read More

We report the case of a 78-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, deep vein thrombosis, valvular heart disease treated with coumarin, osteoporosis, and overlap syndrome. In addition, she had diagnostic findings consistent with systemic lupus erythematosus (pleuropericarditis, lupus erythematosus panniculitis, subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus, malar rash, oral ulcers, arthritis, leukopenia and thrombocytopenia, meningitis, and...Read More

Christian Ottomann, MD, Bernd Hartmann, MD, Josh Tyler, MD, Heike Maier, MD, Richard Thiele, MD,Wolfgang Schaden, MD, Alexander Stojadinovic, MD, FACS – Between January 2006, and September 2007, 28 patients with acute traumatic wounds and burns requiring skin grafting were randomly assigned in a 1:1 fashion to receive standard topical therapy (nonadherent silicone mesh [Mepitel, Mölnlycke...Read More