[APPLICATION OF VACUUM-THERAPY IN COMPLEX OF TREATMENT OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES CHRONIC WOUNDS]

Abstract

Experience of treatment of chronic wounds in 11 patients in 2014 – 2016 yrs was analyzed. The impact of negative pressure, using domestically manufactured apparatus «АGАТ- Dnepr», in complex of treatment as a local therapy, was applied. Vacuum-therapy was conducted preoperatively and postoperatively together with autodermoplasty. The injection material for the skin regeneration “lacerta” was applied subcutaneously intraoperatively. The Ialuset-cream bandages were used in 10 - 12 days postoperatively during 2-3 weeks. Еfficacy of vacuum-therapy was estimated, basing on analysis of the wound process course dynamics, clinic-laboratory criteria, terms of the wound defect complete closure. The patients’ stationary treatment duration have constituted 38.3 days at average. Complex treatment of chronic wounds have had guaranteed complete healing of the wound defect in 7 (63%) patients in terms up to 1 - 5 weeks, and in 3 (26%) - 6 weeks.