Summary
Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a useful wound dressing that can be applied
to a wide variety of wounds. Patients with ischaemic wounds, however, may experience
further necrosis with NPWT at the commonly recommended pressure of −125 mm Hg. We
hypothesized that with a suction pressure of −125 mm Hg, tissue pressure will likely
occlude most of the capillaries adjacent to the wound edge. Therefore, we treated
three patients with ischaemic wounds using low-pressure NPWT at −50 mm Hg. All wounds
healed successfully without further necrosis at the wound edge.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 25, 2011
Accepted:
August 4,
2011
Received:
June 9,
2011
Footnotes
☆Presented at The 54th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Tokushima, Japan. 13–15 April 2011.
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