PMID: 30174568Sep 4, 2018Paper

Enzymatic escharolysis with nexobrid® on partial thickness burn wounds: pre- and post-debridement histological assessment

Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters
A Di LonardoS Ciappi

Abstract

Enzymatic escharolysis is an innovative, non-surgical treatment method for severe burn patients as it allows very early, nontraumatic removal of necrotic tissue even on patients whose overall clinical conditions would mandate delaying traditional surgical escharectomy. The aim of this work was to examine aspects related to the "quality" of enzymatic debridement, which is inherently different from surgical debridement. To this end, biopsies harvested from partial thickness burn wounds, before and after enzymatic treatment, were histologically assessed. As is well known, surgical escharectomy removes the necrosis as well as some of its neighbouring healthy tissue, sharply and radically, leaving a perfectly clean and viable wound bed. On the other hand, enzymatic escharolysis is more selective, as it completely wipes out the necrotic portion while sparing unharmed and partially damaged tissue. In this study, only mid-deep partial thickness wounds were examined, and it was observed that partially damaged dermis was always spared by the lytic action. This dermis, however, showed some "homogenization" characteristics, had few vital skin annexes in it, and therefore looked very similar to the scaffold of dermal matrices currently avai...Continue Reading

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