Chapter 14: Wound Healing Flashcards
Wound healing: days 1-10
Inflammation: PMNs, macrophages
Rate of epithelialization during wound healing
1-2 mm/day
Wound healing: 5 days - 3 weeks
Proliferation: fibroblasts, collagen deposition, neovascularizaiton, granulation tissue formation; type 3 collagen replaced with type 1
Wound healing: 3 weeks - 1 year
Decreased vascularity
What happens during the remodeling phase of wound healing?
Net amount of collagen does not change with remodeling, although significant production and degradation occur. Collagen cross-linking occurs.
Rate of regeneration of peripheral nerves
1 mm/day
Order of cell arrival in wound
Platelets, PMNs, Macrophages, Lymphocytes, (recent research shows arrival before fibroblasts), fibroblasts
Essential for wound healing (release of growth factors, cytokines, etc)
Macrophages
Chemotactic for macrophages; anchors fibroblasts
Fibronectin
Replace fibronectin-fibrin with collagen
Fibroblasts
Predominant cell type by day:
- Days 0-2
- Days 3-4
- Days 5 and on
- Days 0-2: PMNs
- Days 3-4: Macrophages
- Days 5 and on: fibroblasts
What comprises platelet plug?
Platelets and fibrin
What comprises the provisional matrix?
Platelets, fibrin, fibronectin
Definition: accelerated wound healing
Reopening a wound results in quicker healing the 2nd time (as healing cells are already present there)
Most important factor in healing open wounds (secondary intention)
Epithelial integrity
What does secondary intention wound healing depend on?
- Epithelial integrity.
- Migration from hair follicles (#1 site), wound edges, sweat glands. Dependent on granulation tissue in wound.
Unepithelialized wounds leak…
Serum and protein, promote bacteria.
Most important factor in healing closed incisions (primary intention)
Tensile strength
What does tensile strength / primary intention depend on?
Depends on collagen deposition and cross-linking of collagen
Strength layer of bowel
Submucosa
Weakest time point for small bowel anastomosis
3 - 5 days
- Smooth muscle cell-fibroblast; communicate by gap junctions
- Involved in wound contraction and healing by secondary intention
- Perineum has better wound contraction than leg
Myofibroblasts
Collagen: MC type of collagen; skin, bone, tendons. Primary collagen in a healed wound.
Type 1
Collagen: Cartilage
Type 2