Clinical Advances in Wound Healing and Inflammation Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery/Aesthetic Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 381
Editor
Interests: vascular ulcers; inflammation; traumatic ulcers; burns; regenerative medicine; mononuclear cells; pressure sores; wound technologies
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, it has become clear that there is an important connection between wound healing and the inflammation process. Even through inflammation is a fundamental part of the healing process, unbalanced inflammation can also delay this process; indeed, the "exaggerated" presence of cytokines and pro-inflammatory cells can lead to chronic lesions and/or hypertrophic scarring. For example, the overproduction of metalloproteases or the failure of macrophage polarization from M1 to M2 can delay the proliferative phase, leading to a permanent state of inflammation.
Nutrition is also very important in managing inflammation and promoting wound healing. It is known that nutrients such as proteins, omega 3 fatty acids, antioxidants (e.g., curcumin), vitamins (e.g., A and C), supplements (e.g., zinc for vegan patients) and hydration are crucial to effective immune response and inflammation management.
Nowadays, many strategies, such as new technologies, advanced dressings, and nutritional and regenerative medicine approaches, are available to manage inflammation and promote wound healing. Treatments such as negative-pressure wound therapy, fluorescent light energy, acoustic wave therapy, acellular dermal matrices, fat grafting, PRP, and mononuclear cells infiltration have become part of daily practice to effectively treat inflammation in both inpatients and outpatients.
In this Special Issue, we will present the state of the art and innovative studies in order to create a strategy for the management of inflammation in both adults and children.
Topics of interest for this publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Wound healing and the inflammation process;
- Cytokines and cells involved in the wound healing process;
- Nutritional balance in the wound healing process;
- Acellular matrices for ulcers and burned patients;
- Technologies (NPWT; AWT; FLE; blue LED lamp treatments; photodynamic therapy with red light etc.);
- Regenerative medicine (fat grafting, PRP, mononuclear cell infiltration).
Dr. Carlotta Scarpa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vascular ulcers
- inflammation
- traumatic ulcers
- burns
- regenerative medicine
- mononuclear cells
- pressure sores
- wound technologies
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