Even Better Than the Real Thing? Xenografting in Pediatric Patients with Scald Injury

Paul Diegidio; Steven J Hermiz; Shiara Ortiz-Pujols; Samuel W Jones; David van Duin; David J Weber; Bruce A Cairns; Charles Scott Hultman

doi:10.1016/j.cps.2017.02.001

Even Better Than the Real Thing? Xenografting in Pediatric Patients with Scald Injury

Clin Plast Surg. 2017 Jul;44(3):651-656. doi: 10.1016/j.cps.2017.02.001. Epub 2017 Apr 26.

Authors

Paul Diegidio¹, Steven J Hermiz², Shiara Ortiz-Pujols¹, Samuel W Jones¹, David van Duin³, David J Weber³, Bruce A Cairns¹, Charles Scott Hultman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29209, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: scott_hultman@med.unc.edu.

PMID: 28576254
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2017.02.001

Abstract

This article reviews a single burn center experience with porcine xenografts to treat pediatric scald injuries, over a 10-year period. The authors compare xenografting to autografting, as well as wound care only, and provide outcome data on length of stay, incidence of health care-associated infections, and need for reconstructive surgery.

Keywords: Infections; Pediatric burn; Scald injury; Xenograft.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Burn Units
Burns / complications
Burns / surgery*
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross Infection / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Length of Stay
Male
Retrospective Studies
Skin Transplantation*
Swine
Transplantation, Autologous
Transplantation, Heterologous*
Treatment Outcome