Tratamiento de las lesiones de los nervios periféricos. Tendencias actuales del tratamiento quirúrgico
- Garrido Gómez, Juan
- Hernández Cortés, Pedro
- Carriel Araya, Víctor
- Lara Guerrero, Fernando
- García García, Salomé
- Sáez Moreno, José Antonio
- Alaminos Mingorance, Miguel
- Torres Barroso, Javier
ISSN: 0365-7965
Year of publication: 2012
Tome: 97
Issue: 785
Pages: 45-55
Type: Article
More publications in: Actualidad médica
Abstract
Nerve damage is common in any hospital environment. The high incidence of these injuries and the high number of aftermath associated makes them a public health problem. To provide a successful treatment with acceptable functional prognosis is still a pending issue for modern medicine. Generally, peripheral nerves are injured acutely in the context of traffic accidents, gunshot wounds or stab, or partial amputation of any member or simply an incised wound produced at home or business. Today, the therapeutic options available to the surgeon to repair such injuries are very limited with a slow and meager functional recovery in a high percentage of cases. The progression of biological and medical sciences has enabled the development of new techniques and methods Tissue Engineering that project advances in therapy for this type of nerve damage so far, have been associated with an unsatisfactory recovery, and sometimes nonexisten.