Fractional CO 2 laser ablation of porcine burn scars after grafting: Is deeper better?

Autor: Baumann ME; Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States., Blackstone BN; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States., Malara MM; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States., Clairmonte IA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States., Supp DM; Research Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States., Bailey JK; Research Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Department of Surgery, Division of Critical Care, Trauma and Burns, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States., Powell HM; Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States; Research Department, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, OH, United States. Electronic address: powell.299@osu.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries [Burns] 2020 Jun; Vol. 46 (4), pp. 937-948. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Nov 23.
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2019.10.009
Abstrakt: Introduction: Fractional CO 2 lasers have been used in clinical settings to improve scarring following burn injury. Though used with increasing frequency, the appropriate laser settings are not well defined and overall efficacy of this therapy has not been definitively established. As it has been proposed that for thick hypertrophic scars proportionally greater fluence and thus deeper ablation into the scar tissue would be most effective, the goal of this study was to examine the role of ablation depth on scar outcomes in a highly-controlled porcine model for burn scars-after grafting.
Methods: Properties of laser ablated wells were quantified on ex vivo pig skin as a function of laser energy (20, 70 or 150mJ). Full-thickness burn wounds were created on the dorsum of red Duroc pigs with the eschar excised and grafted with a split-thickness autograft meshed and expanded 1.5:1. After four weeks of healing, sites were treated with either 20, 70, or 150mJ pulse energy from a fractional CO 2 laser at 5% density or left untreated as a control. Sites were treated every four weeks with three total sessions. Scar area, pigmentation, erythema, roughness, histology, and biomechanics were evaluated prior to each laser treatment at day 28, 56, and 83, as well as four weeks after the final laser treatment, day 112. Additional biopsies were collected at day 112 for gene expression analysis.
Results: The depth of the laser ablated wells increased with increasing pulse energy while the width of the wells was smaller in the 20mJ group and not significantly different in the 70 and 150mJ groups. Scar properties (area, color, biomechanics) were not significantly altered by laser therapy at any of the laser energies tested versus controls. Average scar roughness was improved by laser therapy in a dose dependent manner with scars treated with 150mJ of energy having the smoothest surface; however, these changes were not statistically significant. Assessment of matrix metalloproteinase 9 gene expression showed a slight upregulation in scars treated with 70 or 150mJ versus control scars and scars treated with 20mJ pulse energy.
Conclusion: The current study demonstrated that the properties of the ablative well (depth and width) are not linearly correlated with laser pulse energy, with only a small increase in well depth at energies between 70 and 150mJ. Overall, the study suggests that there is little difference in outcomes as a function of laser energy. Fractional CO 2 laser therapy did not result in any statistically significant benefit to scar properties assessed by quantitative, objective measures, thus highlighting the need for additional clinical investigation of laser therapy efficacy with non-treated controls and objective measures of outcome.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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