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To evaluate the diversity and antifungal susceptibilities of Candida isolates from wounds and blood of burn victims, and the associated mortality rates compared with those of controls without candidaemia.We performed a nested case-control study within a database of clinical data for all patients admitted to our burn unit from January 2001 to December 2005. Each candidaemic patient was compared with...
Organ protection is a routine therapy in severe burn/scald injuries, and damage following early scald injury was not been fully elucidated. Our aim was to verify the beneficial effects of ulinastatin on pancreatic and renal damage associated with scald injury.Lewis rats were subjected to 30% total body surface area (TBSA) scald injury, and were randomly divided into a burn control (S group) and an...
It has been previously established that the incidence of burn is higher in lower socioeconomic (SES) groups. What is not clear, however, is whether or not the severity of burn is also higher in lower SES groups. The purpose of this study is to establish a relationship between household-level socioeconomic status (SES) and severity-based incidence of burn.A burn injury database was generated from the...
An epidemiological study on burn patients treated in a Finnish burn center has not been published before in international literature. This study reports the results of a retrospective study on the first 1000 patients treated in Kuopio University Hospital Burn Unit (KBU) in Finland.First consecutive 1000 patients treated in KBU January 1994–April 2006.The incidence of burns treated in our burn center...
Although the incidence of eye splash injury has been assessed for a number of surgical specialities, such risks posed to the burn surgeon have not been previously quantified. During 100 consecutive procedures the operating burns team wore a clean set of goggles, counting the number of blood splashes on the goggles after each procedure.During this study there were 47 cases of potential eye splash injury,...
Over production of collagen and its abnormal assembly is the hallmark of abnormal scars such as keloids, a condition which reflects fibrosis of the skin. Fibrotic conditions of organs such as liver, lungs and eyes are characterized by low levels of decorin, a member of the small leucine proteoglycan family, which is an indispensable modulator of collagen assembly. Involvement of decorin in keloids...
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