title: Application of low-pressure negative pressure wound therapy to ischaemic wounds.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Fujigaoka Hospital, Showa University School of Medicine, Aoba-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. floatation-yoshi@nifty.com
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kasai
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nemoto
authors.forename: Naohiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Noriyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sumiya
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D016523:Foot Ulcer / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D054843:Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014945:Wound Healing