title: [Future treatment options for chronic wounds].
abstract: The skin plays an important role in the human immune system, working as a barrier to pathologic influences. A chronic wound breaks that barrier and eliminates that function. Affected patients can suffer from significant reductions in quality of life and become socially isolated. The inability to work may have serious economic consequences for the individual and the community. Treating these wounds with novel, evidence-based techniques can accelerate wound healing while reducing the length of in- and outpatient treatment and thereby the overall costs. This article discusses current and future treatment options in wound conditioning, therapy, and regeneration.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Plastische Chirurgie und Schwerbrandverletzte, BG-Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, 44789, Bochum, Deutschland. lars.steinstraesser@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Steinsträsser
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hasler
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Daigeler
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.forename: H U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Steinau
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends; D054843:Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*