Therapeutics Effects of Larval Therapy on the Chronic Ulcers

Background: Chronic wounds, such as pressure ulcers, diabetic wounds, or vascular ulcers, are associated with high morbidity and less mortality. Treating these wounds will cost more than £ 3 billion to the health system in the United States. In this review article, we review the impact of larval therapy as a natural healing for these wounds.Methods: Chronic wound, larval therapy, wound care and their Persian synonym words were searched in SID, Magiran, Pubmed, Sciencedirect and Cochrane databases without time limit in both English and Persian. Then the articles were reviewed and entered into the study according to the subject matter of the study.Findings: After reviewing the articles obtained by searching the databases, 35 articles were obtained. The articles included review articles and clinical trials on the use of larval therapy in the treatment of chronic ulcers. Conclusion: The results showed that due to high efficacy, safety and feasibility, its use is expanding, and there are sufficient clinical evidences to use larval therapy, especially in infectious wounds with several bacteria resistant and severe complicated that the surgery is impossible.

Keywords:

Chronic Wound , Diabetic Foot Ulcer , Venous Ulcer , Larval Therapy