ESWT in skin graft epithelialization 3 days faster healing. Click here to read more.
ESWT in skin graft epithelialization 3 days faster healing. Click here to read more.
Shock waves are high-energy acoustic waves characterized by an initial rise of high pressure within a very short rise time, followed by a low tensile amplitude. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy […]
Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) often display Raynaud’s phenomenon and digital skin ulcers. As these ulcers are not associated with autoimmune factors or abnormal coagulation, conventional immunosuppressive therapies, vasodilators, and […]
CREST syndrome is a variant of systemic sclerosis, which affects a relatively small number of patients. CREST (also called limited cutaneous scleroderma) has a more favorable prognosis than the diffuse […]
Prof. Hilde Beele (MD), Steven Smet, Francis Ramboer, at Ghent University Hospital faced up to the great challenge in the treatment of non-healing diabetic foot wounds and demonstrated the beneficial effect for […]
Skin grafting is one of the most common treatment options for permanent replacement of lost skin and proven effective in burn patients. The procedure consists of transplantation of skin or […]
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT), first described in the eighties for the treatment of urolithiasis, has also been applied in other fields such as orthopaedics and chronic wound care. Recently […]
We studied the effects of ESWT in 8 SSc female patients who received 4 consecutive ESWT sessions (Dermagold– MTS Germany defocused lithotripter device, 10.000 shots/ session applied at the energy […]
This study investigated the plasma protein expression in the extracorporeal shock wave therapy group and diabetic controls using proteomic study. A dorsal skin defect (6 × 5 cm) in a […]
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 […]