Successful Treatment of Lower Limb Burn Wounds With Long-Term Survived Human Skin Allograft in an Immunosuppressed Patient: A Case Report

Abstract

Early excision and autografting have been the principles in managing acute burn wounds. Despite the known benefits of early autografting, there are situations in which the placement of autograft is unsafe or even unavailable. In these clinical situations, skin substitutes like artificial dressings and human skin allografts are considered as useful for temporary wound coverage. We present an immunosuppressed patient with deep lower limb burn wound who received human skin allograft for wound management. The applied human skin allograft persisted for a longer period without infection or rejection and successfully improved her wound healing. Large and well-designed prospective studies are needed to confirm the encouraging results of the present case report.