Image-based non-invasive assessment of suction blister wounds for clinical safety and efficacy

© 2024 The Authors. Wound Repair and Regeneration published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Wound Healing Society..

Recognising the need for objective imaging-based technologies to assess wound healing in clinical studies, the suction blister wound model offers an easily accessible wound model that creates reproducible epidermal wounds that heal without scarring. This study provides a comprehensive methodology for implementing and evaluating photography-based imaging techniques utilising the suction blister wound model. Our method encompasses a protocol for capturing consistent, high-quality photographs and procedures for quantifying these images via a visual wound healing score and a computer-assisted colour analysis of wound exudation and wound redness. We employed this methodology on 16 suction blister wounds used as controls in a clinical phase-1 trial. Our method enabled us to discern and quantify subtle differences between individual wounds concerning healing progress, erythema and wound exudation. The wound healing score exhibited a high inter-rater agreement. There was a robust correlation between the spectrophotometer-measured erythema index and photography-based wound redness, as well as between dressing protein content and photography-based dressing yellowness. In conclusion, this study equips researchers conducting clinical wound studies with reproducible methods that may support future wound research and aid in the development of new treatments.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society - (2024) vom: 21. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wallblom, Karl [VerfasserIn]
Lundgren, Sigrid [VerfasserIn]
Saleh, Karim [VerfasserIn]
Schmidtchen, Artur [VerfasserIn]
Puthia, Manoj [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical photography
Clinical studies
Clinical trial
Imaging
Journal Article
Wound healing

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Date Revised 21.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1111/wrr.13172

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370012453