Vacuum therapy for chronic wounds

Abstract

Chronic wound in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most urgent problems of modern diabetology and surgery. Numberof patients suffering from different types of chronic wounds follows increase in DM incidence. Vacuum therapy is a novel perspectivemethod of topical treatment for non-healing chronic wounds of various etiology. Current review addresses experimental and clinicalevidence for this method.

Keywords

• diabetes mellitus
• chronic wound
• vacuum therapy
• growth factors