Supercritical solvent impregnation of alginate wound dressings with mango leaves extract

Summary Background: To evaluate the implementation of the guidelines of the German Society of Phlebology for venous crural ulcer a survey was conducted during the annual meeting of the German Society of Phlebology 2008 in Bochum. Methods: All 719 medical participants got an anonymized questionnaire asking for supply of crural ulcer in their institution. Results: The recurrent 66 questionnaires (9.2%) were filled by colleagues from practice or hospital, mostly surgeons, dermatologists, phlebologists and vascular surgeons. As basic diagnostics vein doppler (56.1%), duplex (75.8%) or measurement of brachial-ankleindex (83.3%) were performed. Compression therapy is used in all institutions. Mainly used wound dressings are polyurethane foam dressings, alginates, hydrocolloids and silver dressings. About 2/3 conduct surgical therapy of ulcers. Conclusion: Supply of ulcus cruris by the participants of the annual meeting of the DGP corresponds mainly, but not in all aspects to the guidelines. Further efforts for a spread of the guidelines are necessary.

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Novel tissue engineering scaffolds as wound dressings loaded with Alkannins/Shikonins as active ingredients

10.1055/s-0039-3400068 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

AS Arampatzis ◽

K Theodoridis ◽

E Aggelidou ◽

KN Kontogiannopoulos ◽

I Tsivintzelis ◽

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Keyword(s):

Tissue Engineering ◽

Wound Dressings ◽

Active Ingredients ◽

Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

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Isaac Bayley Balfour, Sphagnum moss, and the Great War (1914–1918)

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2015.0274 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

P. G. Ayres

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Academic Career ◽

The United States ◽

Royal Botanic Garden ◽

Wound Dressings ◽

Sphagnum Moss ◽

Botanic Garden ◽

Working Model ◽

Sphagnum Bog ◽

The Great War

Isaac Bayley Balfour was a systematist specializing in Sino-Himalayan plants. He enjoyed a long and exceptionally distinguished academic career yet he was knighted, in 1920, “for services in connection with the war”. Together with an Edinburgh surgeon, Charles Cathcart, he had discovered in 1914 something well known to German doctors; dried Sphagnum (bog moss) makes highly absorptive, antiseptic wound dressings. Balfour directed the expertise and resources of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (of which he was Keeper), towards the identification of the most useful Sphagnum species in Britain and the production of leaflets telling collectors where to find the moss in Scotland. By 1918 over one million such dressings were used by British hospitals each month. Cathcart's Edinburgh organisation, which received moss before making it into dressings, proved a working model soon adopted in Ireland, and later in both Canada and the United States.

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Effect of Hydrophilic Polymers on Functional Properties and Wound Healing Efficacy of Hydrocolloid Based Wound Dressings

10.26226/morressier.57d6b2b9d462b8028d88ce7d ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Dong Shik Kim

Keyword(s):

Wound Healing ◽

Functional Properties ◽

Hydrophilic Polymers ◽

Wound Dressings

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TUNGAU PADA DAUN MANGGA (Mangifera Indica)

Jurnal Natural ◽

10.30862/jn.v13i3.722 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Rawati Panjaitan

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Direct Observation ◽

Host Plants ◽

Body Shape ◽

Leaf Surface ◽

Mangifera Indica ◽

Posterior Part ◽

Mango Leaves

Mites have hostplant specifications or host plants. Mites can be destructive and deadly of which is the host plants a mango crop. Mites on mango crops will cause the leaves yellow and fall off prematurely. This is will lead to the disruption of the productivity of mango. It is necessary for research to identify the mites that infect the mango crop. The method is carried out by direct observation. Mites were taken from the surface of mango leaves later in preservation with several levels of concentration of alcohol, and polyvinyl laktofenol. Then, observed under a microscope and documented for identification purposes. Mites on the leaf surface of manalagi mango (Mangifera indica) found two species, it is Oligonychus sp. and Oligonychus ilicis (Family: Tetranychidae, Superfamily: Tetranychoidea). Oligonychus sp. hallmark is rounded body shape like a spider, with a body is transparent and there are two long seta on posterior part. While Oligonychus ilicis has a characteristic elongated rounded body shape, red, and there is a short posterior seta. Oligonychus sp. and Oligonychus ilicis live as parasites on the surface of mango leaves that can lead to wrinkled leaves, yellow and to fall. Oligonychus life cycle starts from the eggs develop into Nympha and then adult.

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