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ReviewBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Smart Wound Dressings for Diabetic Chronic Wounds.

Elizabeth Gianino, Craig Miller, Jordon Gilmore

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Review in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Advanced Wound Care Strategies in Patients with NSTIs.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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  16. Regenerative Potential of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Diabetes Mellitus.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elizabeth GianinoBioengineering Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29632, USA. egianin@g.clemson.edu.
Craig MillerBioengineering Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29632, USA. clm6@g.clemson.edu.
Jordon GilmoreBioengineering Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29632, USA. jagilmo@g.clemson.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Given their severity and non-healing nature, diabetic chronic wounds are a significant concern to the 30.3 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (2015). Peripheral arterial diseases, neuropathy, and infection contribute to the development of these wounds, which lead to an increased incidence of lower extremity amputations. Early recognition, debridement, offloading, and controlling infection are imperative for timely treatment. However, wound characterization and treatment are highly subjective and based largely on the experience of the treating clinician. Many wound dressings have been designed to address particular clinical presentations, but a prescriptive method is lacking for identifying the particular state of chronic, non-healing wounds. The authors suggest that recent developments in wound dressings and biosensing may allow for the quantitative, real-time representation of the wound environment, including exudate levels, pathogen concentrations, and tissue regeneration. Development of such sensing capability could enable more strategic, personalized care at the onset of ulceration and limit the infection leading to amputation. This review presents an overview of the pathophysiology of diabetic chronic wounds, a brief summary of biomaterial wound dressing treatment options, and biosensor development for biomarker sensing in the wound environment.

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biochemical sensorchronic woundsdiabetessmart wound dressing

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PMID29949930
PMCPMC6163915

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