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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 12, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm12155121
Keywords
plasma therapy; cold plasma; chronic wounds; wound-healing disorder; wound; diabetes mellitus; epidermal regeneration; health economics; plasma
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The study aimed to investigate the effect of cold plasma therapy on chronic wounds. The results showed that cold plasma therapy significantly accelerates wound closure, reduces antibiotic therapy, relieves pain, and improves quality of life.
Chronic wounds (CWs) pose a significant health challenge in clinical practice. Standard wound therapy (SWT) is currently considered the gold standard. However, recent evidence suggests that cold plasma therapy (CPT) holds promise for improving CWs. In light of this, the POWER study was conducted as a multicenter, randomized clinical trial to investigate the effect of large-area plasma application compared with SWT in patients with chronic, non-healing arterial or venous wounds on the lower leg. To analyze the interim results, we employed a comprehensive range of statistical tests, including both parametric and non-parametric methods, as well as GLS model regression and an ordinal mixed model. Our findings clearly demonstrate that CPT therapy significantly accelerates wound closure compared with SWT. In fact, complete wound closure was exclusively observed in the CPT group during the intervention period. Additionally, the CPT group required significantly less antibiotic therapy (4%) compared with the SWT group (23%). Furthermore, CPT led to a significant reduction in wound pain and improved quality of life compared with SWT. In conclusion, the study highlights that the combination of CPT and SWT surpasses monotherapy with SWT alone.
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