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- Title
Tıbbi Sülük Tedavisi: Hirudoterapi.
- Authors
Ayhan, Hüseyin; Mollahaliloğlu, Salih
- Abstract
Hirudoterapy is a form of treatment that has been used to treat diseases for centuries using medicinal leeches. Leeches have been used therapeutically for many years, but their use has decreased as pharmacotherapy progresses. Today, a number of biologically and pharmacologically active bioactive substances have been identified in the secretion of leeches they give to tissues they bite during blood sucking. Thus, the importance of hirudotherapy is understood better each day, in addition to conventional treatment. This review has been written to remind the importance of medicinal leech therapy for our country and to review current literature.
- Publication
Ankara Medical Journal, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1, p141
- ISSN
2148-4570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17098/amj.409057