Case Example
GRAFTJACKET® Regenerative Tissue Matrix - Ulcer Repair

Use of a Human Collagen Matrix to Allow the Physiological Repair of Challenging Chronic Wounds

INTRODUCTION
The GRAFTJACKET® Matrix provides immediate soft tissue coverage, allowing cellular revascularization and cellular repopulation to permit rapid granulation tissue formation and offer increased resistance to opportunistic infection that is not uncommon in these challenging ulcers.

The following case demonstrates the effective use of the GRAFTJACKET® Matrix in a difficult chronic wound. The sequential images demonstrate the repair over time, and importantly, provide a representative sample of what to expect at different time points.

PATIENT PROFILE
The patient is a 63 year-old male.
Chronic ulcer persistent for approximately 6 months due to peripheral neuropathy with unknown etiology. At only 3 weeks, ulcer had healed approx. 80% of the depth and had closed to about 5mm. At 67 days, wound demonstrates epithelialization (the covering of a surface by the development of epithelial tissue, as in the healing of a wound) almost complete.

Figure 1 | Pre-Op	Figure 2 | Post-Op	Figure 3 | 5 Days
Figure 4 | 21 Days	Figure 5 | 28 Days	Figure 6 | 2 Months

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