Medical News: Maggots Quickly Clear Chronic Leg Ulcers - in Dermatology, General Dermatology from MedPage Today
A week of wound debridement using maggots cleared necrotic tissue more effectively than conventional debridement in patients with chronic venous ulcers, a randomized French study showed.
At day eight of treatment, the percentage of the wound area covered by slough was 54.5% in patients given maggot therapy compared with 66.5% (P=0.04) of the wound area in a control group, according to Anne Dompmartin, MD, PhD, of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, and colleagues.