The Impact of the pH Value on Skin Integrity and Cutaneous Wound Healing
The process of cutaneous wound healing comprises three overlapping major phases: inflammation, proliferation and tissue remodeling. However, while mechanisms are studied scientifically on the cellular and sub cellular level, there is still a lack of knowledge concerning basic clinical parameters like wound pH or pO2.
The likelihood of bacterial colonization, which is a common problem in chronic wound pathogenesis, is affected by wound pH alterations.
However, wound pH is rarely taken into account in current wound therapy strategies. A routinely performed monitoring of the wound pH and a subsequently adapted wound therapy would most possibly improve chronic wound therapy.
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