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- Title
Innovative treatment using tilapia skin as a xenograft for partial thickness burns after a gunpowder explosion.
- Authors
Lima-Junior, Edmar Maciel; Filho, Manoel Odorico de Moraes; Costa, Bruno Almeida; Fechine, Francisco Vagnaldo; Moraes, Maria Elisabete Amaral de; Silva-Junior, Francisco Raimundo; Soares, Maria Flaviane Araújo do Nascimento; Rocha, Marina Becker Sales; Leontsinis, Cybele Maria Philopimin
- Abstract
Tilapia skin has non-infectious microbiota, high amounts of type I collagen, and similar morphological structure to human skin, so it has been suggested as a potential xenograft for the management of burn wounds. A 23-year-old male patient, with no comorbidities, arrived at our burn treatment center after a thermal injury caused by contact with flames from a gunpowder explosion. Superficial partial thickness burns were present in his right upper limb and deep partial thickness burns were present in his left upper limb. Tilapia skin was applied to the lesions, leading to complete reepithelialization within 12 and 17 days of treatment, respectively. No dressing changes were needed and no side effects were observed. Tilapia skin carries the promise of an innovative, easy-to-apply and highly available product that can become the first nationally studied animal skin registered by the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency for use in the treatment of burns.
- Subjects
GUNPOWDER; THERAPEUTICS; DRUG side effects; ARM; SKIN
- Publication
Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2019, Vol 2019, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
2042-8812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jscr/rjz181