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Fish skin grafting as a new skin substitute is currently being used in clinical applications. Acceleration of the wound healing, lack of disease transmission, and low cost of the production process can introduce fish skin as a potential alternative ...
The intact Kerecis fish skin is being used to treat wounds, burns and other complex acute and chronic wounds including diabetic, venous, trauma, and surgical wounds. Thousands of patients of all incomes, cultures and races have benefited from treatment with Kerecis.
In each of these applications, one of the most promising results of the fish skin is its ability to reduce inflammation, a major obstacle to the healing process, and transform chronic wounds into mere acute injuries, such as burns.
Doctors use fish skin grafts to treat open wounds. This promising new treatment has fewer infections and faster healing than other options.
The use of the fish skin to treat burns decreased the wound's surface area, reduced patient pain, and shortened healing and recovery time, a pilot study of the technology at Atrium Health...
Fish skin has emerged as a potential candidate for improving wound healing due to its notable results in human trials, in which it has been directly applied as a dressing on wounds. The current review explores the mechanisms by which fish skin can boost the wound healing process.
Fish skin has shown anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties that support and improve wound healing in a variety of wounds including burns and diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). There is ongoing research that evaluates the efficacy of fish skin grafts in comparison to alternative wound healing techniques.