US EditionTiny Baby’s Life-Threatening Wound Healed With Fish Skin
- Eliana, a premature baby born at 23 weeks weighing one pound, was treated for a life-threatening neck wound using fish skin at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
- Eliana developed a severe, fast-spreading infection causing a full-thickness wound and sepsis, making her too fragile for surgery or skin grafts, leading doctors to try fish skin treatment.
- The Icelandic company Kerecis supplies fish skin that acts as a scaffold to promote new tissue growth, and after ten days the wound closed with little scarring and no adverse reactions.
- Doctors reported dramatic results within three days, presented data at the March European Wound Management Association Conference, and noted Eliana was likely the smallest preemie to receive this treatment.
- This successful fish skin use suggests promising opportunities for wound healing in fragile infants, while specialists urge open-mindedness and faith in modern medicine's evolving tools.
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Tiny Baby’s Life-Threatening Wound Healed With Fish Skin
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In the United States, a premature baby girl contracted an infection that caused a deep wound. But a fish-skin device transplant saved her life.
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