Physicochemical characterization of chronic venous ulcer exudates by FTIR Spectroscopy?.

N. CERÚSICO; S. LÓPEZ; J. MALDONADO; E. GONZÁLEZ; A. RAMOS ; S. MOLINA ; M. LAZARTE; L. DI TOTO BLESING; A. BEN ALTABEF; J. P. AYBAR; E. FRAU; M. E. SESTO CABRAL; J. C. VALDEZ

Buenos Aires

Congreso; Reunión Conjunta de Sociedades de Biociencias; 2017

Chronic venous legulcer (CLVU) arises as a complication of chronic venous insufficiency. Thishigh recurrence pathology has an overall prevalence ranging up to 2% in generalpopulation, causing an important reduction in life quality and large financial costsfor patients and health care system. To get a better diagnostic and treatment,it?s crucial to identificate the parametersinvolved in this pathology, being the exudate(wound fluid) composition a biochemical representation of the clinical state ofa wound. Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy associated to otherclinical parameters would help to get a clinical represent-image for each case.The aim of this work is topropose FTIR spectroscopy as a novel and versatile technique to get a physico-chemicalcharacterization of exudate samples to get abetter diagnostic in a less-invasive and simply way.