Impact of Renal Failure on Wounds Healing

Population of patients with the impaired kidney function grows around the world. With the advances of the contemporary medicine people live to the older age, survive cardiac and cerebrovascular events, recover from the complex surgeries, overcome malignancies, infections and autoimmune diseases. That all frequently leads to the development of variable degree of chronic kidney impairment in form of interstitial and/or glomerular injury. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) often share risk factors of hypertension, poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, arterial and venous vascular disease, obesity, malnutrition and chronic inflammatory state.
Source: Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists - Category: Dermatology Authors: Source Type: research