152. Stem cell therapy for pressure injury: a pilot study with autologous bone marrow derived stem cell (BM-MNC)

Pressure injuries (PIs) are a common yet challenging problem especially in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) because of immobility and anesthetic skin. They are difficult to treat with standard medical care and often recur. Recent interest in the treatment of chronic wounds like PIs has shifted from the type of dressing with or without pharmaceutical topical agents to different therapies like negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), gene therapy and stem cell based therapies. The rationale behind the use of cell-based therapies is the fact that cells in chronic wounds are phenotypically altered or senescent or both.
Source: The Spine Journal - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research