Eliana DeVos received a graft made with fish skin to help her recover from a serious bacterial infection that left an open ...

A surprising treatment option helped a Texas girl who developed a dangerous wound soon after she was born prematurely.

Research suggests they reduce pain, aid healing, and have a low risk ... the surrounding human cells can grow into the fish skin graft. This process grows new skin cells and transforms some ...

Doctors say Eliana was probably the first premature baby so small to receive this treatment. Her scare is barely visible ...

But then came an unexpected solution that the DeVos family was not expecting to hear: a skin graft made from fish ... on how they sterilize it. The process isn’t as rigorous and it maintains ...

Kerecis has launched SurgiClose Silicone, a product combining fish-skin graft with silicone backing ... a surgical or trauma wound is a multi-step process that often requires supporting products ...

The mean time to healing was 17.31 weeks for the intact fish skin graft group and 19.37 weeks for the standard-of-care group; intact fish skin grafts were also asso­ciated with faster healing ...

But the more traditional approaches – like surgery or a human skin graft – were either too ... the fish skin helped contribute to the healing process, Dimas said, adding that “once it ...