Chronic Ulcers: Updating Epidemiology, Physiopathology, and Therapies
1Wound Healing Group, Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, 14.049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2Department of Pathology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, 14.049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
4Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Chronic Ulcers: Updating Epidemiology, Physiopathology, and Therapies
Description
The leg ulcers constitute a major public health problem worldwide; its incidence and prevalence are rising with increasing life expectancy of the population and, consequently, an increase of chronic diseases. Except diabetic foot ulcers, there are few works about leg ulcer epidemiology in the literature, an important gap of the knowledge about leg ulcers and public health which must be searched to help this population. Additionally, considering the advance of diagnostic technologies nowadays, new concepts about their physiopathology deserve to be thoroughly studied and considered and also about therapies.
We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to improve the knowledge about leg ulcer epidemiology and etiology as venous ulcers, arterial, leprosy and autoimmune ones and new data about chronic wound physiopathology considering clinical and experimental models. Also, we have to consider works involving new kinds of treatment to improve the wound healing as special dressings, development of strategies for cellular grafts involving stem cells, keratinocytes, and fibroblasts, and new scaffolds for chronic ulcers and also for burns. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Epidemiology of leg ulcers
- New concepts about etiology of leg ulcers and impaired wound healing
- Experimental models of chronic wounds and burns
- New technologies in scaffolds for treatment of wounds and burns
- New drugs and dressings to accelerate the healing process
- Stem cells in wound healing
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