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Chapter 14: Wound Healing Flashcards

1
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Wound healing: days 1-10

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Inflammation: PMNs, macrophages

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2
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Rate of epithelialization during wound healing

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1-2 mm/day

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3
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Wound healing: 5 days - 3 weeks

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Proliferation: fibroblasts, collagen deposition, neovascularizaiton, granulation tissue formation; type 3 collagen replaced with type 1

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4
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Wound healing: 3 weeks - 1 year

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Decreased vascularity

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5
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What happens during the remodeling phase of wound healing?

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Net amount of collagen does not change with remodeling, although significant production and degradation occur. Collagen cross-linking occurs.

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6
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Rate of regeneration of peripheral nerves

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1 mm/day

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7
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Order of cell arrival in wound

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Platelets, PMNs, Macrophages, Lymphocytes, (recent research shows arrival before fibroblasts), fibroblasts

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8
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Essential for wound healing (release of growth factors, cytokines, etc)

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Macrophages

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9
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Chemotactic for macrophages; anchors fibroblasts

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Fibronectin

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10
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Replace fibronectin-fibrin with collagen

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Fibroblasts

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11
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Predominant cell type by day:

  • Days 0-2
  • Days 3-4
  • Days 5 and on
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  • Days 0-2: PMNs
  • Days 3-4: Macrophages
  • Days 5 and on: fibroblasts
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12
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What comprises platelet plug?

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Platelets and fibrin

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13
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What comprises the provisional matrix?

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Platelets, fibrin, fibronectin

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14
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Definition: accelerated wound healing

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Reopening a wound results in quicker healing the 2nd time (as healing cells are already present there)

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15
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Most important factor in healing open wounds (secondary intention)

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Epithelial integrity

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16
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What does secondary intention wound healing depend on?

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  • Epithelial integrity.

- Migration from hair follicles (#1 site), wound edges, sweat glands. Dependent on granulation tissue in wound.

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17
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Unepithelialized wounds leak…

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Serum and protein, promote bacteria.

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18
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Most important factor in healing closed incisions (primary intention)

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Tensile strength

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19
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What does tensile strength / primary intention depend on?

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Depends on collagen deposition and cross-linking of collagen

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20
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Strength layer of bowel

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Submucosa

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21
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Weakest time point for small bowel anastomosis

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3 - 5 days

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22
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  • Smooth muscle cell-fibroblast; communicate by gap junctions
  • Involved in wound contraction and healing by secondary intention
  • Perineum has better wound contraction than leg
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Myofibroblasts

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23
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Collagen: MC type of collagen; skin, bone, tendons. Primary collagen in a healed wound.

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Type 1

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24
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Collagen: Cartilage

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Type 2

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25
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Collagen: increased in healing wound, also in blood vessels and skin

26
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Collagen: Basement membrane

27
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Collagen: widespread, particularly found in the cornea

28
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Required for hydroxylation (prolyl hydroxylase) and subsequent cross-linking of proline residues in collagen

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Alpha-ketoglutarate, vitamin C, oxygen, and iron

29
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Collagen: every third amino acid

30
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What does proline cross-linking do?

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Improves wound tensile strength

31
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Vitamin C deficiency

32
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% tensile strength to pre-wound strength

33
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Predominant collagen type synthesized for days 1-2

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Type 3 collagen

34
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Predominant collagen type synthesized by days 3-4

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Type 1 collagen

35
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When is type 3 collagen replaced with type 1 collagen?

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By 3 weeks

36
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When does the wound reach maximum tensile strength?

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At 8 weeks.

37
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When is maximum collagen accumulation?

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2-3 weeks. After that the amount of collagen stays the same, but continued cross-linking improves strength.

38
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Inhibits collagen cross-linking

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d-Penicillamine

39
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Essentials for wound healing

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  • Moist environment (avoid desiccation)
  • Oxygen delivery
  • Avoid edema
  • Remove necrotic tissue
40
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How do you optimize oxygen delivery for wound healing?

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Optimize fluids, no smoking, pain control, arterial revascularlization, supplemental oxygen.

41
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What do you want transcutaneous oxygen to measure for wound healing?

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Want transcutaneous oxygen measurement (TCOM) > 25 mm Hg

42
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Impediments to wound healing

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Bacteria > 10^5, devitalized tissue and foreign bodies, cytotoxic drugs, diabetes, albumin

43
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How does bacteria 10^5 impede wound healing?

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Decreased oxygen content, collagen lysis, prolonged inflammation

44
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How does devitalized tissue and foreign bodies impede wound healing?

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Retards granulation tissue formation and wound healing.

45
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How do cytotoxic drugs impede wound healing?

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5FU, methotrexate, cyclosporine, FK-506, etc can impair wound healing in first 14 days after injury

46
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How can diabetes impede wound healing?

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Can contribute to poor wound healing by impeding the early-phase inflammation response (hyperglycemia causes poor leukocyte chemotaxis)

47
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How do steroids impede wound healing?

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Inhibit macrophages, PMNs, and collagen synthesis by fibroblasts; decreases wound tensile strength as well

48
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Counteracts effects of steroids on wound healing

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Vitamin A (25,000 IU qd)

49
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What can cause wound ischemia (hypoxia)?

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Fibrosis, pressure (sacral decubitus ulcer, pressure sores), poor arterial inflow (atherosclerosis), poor venous outflow (venous stasis), smoking, radiation, edema, vasculitis

50
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Diseases associated with abnormal wound healing

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Osteogenesis imperfecta, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan’s, Epidermyolsis bullosa, Scurvy, Pyoderma Gangrenosum

51
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Common location of diabetic foot ulcer

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Charcot’s joint (2nd MTP joint) secondary to neuropathy

52
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90% due to venous insufficiency.

- Tx: Unna boot

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Leg ulcers

53
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What do scars contain?

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A lot of proteoglycans, hyaluronic acid and water.

54
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When can you revise a scar?

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Wait for 1 year to allow maturation; may improve with age.

- Infants heal with little to no scarring.

55
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Contains no blood vessels (get nutrients and oxygen by diffusion)

56
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Has no effect on wound healing

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Denervation

57
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Has no effect on wound healing after 14 days

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Chemotherapy

58
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Autosomal dominant, dark skinned

  • Collaged goes beyond original scar
  • Tx: intra-lesion steroid injection; silicone, pressure garments, XRT
59
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Dark skinned; flexor surfaces of upper torso

  • Collagen stays within confines of original scar
  • Often occurs in burns or wounds that take a long time to heal
  • Tx: steroid injection, silicone, pressure garments
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Hypertrophic scar tissue

60
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What are contained in alpha granules of platelets?

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  • Platelet factor 4: aggregation
  • Beta-thrombomodulin: binds thrombin
  • Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF): chemoattractant
  • Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta): modulates above responses
61
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What do dense granules of platelets contained?

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Contain adenosine, serotonin, and calcium

62
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Platelet aggregation factors

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TXA2, thrombin, platelet factor 4

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