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The Treatment of Proud Flesh or Exuberant Granulation Tissue
by Robert N. Oglesby DVM
Introduction
Introduction
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Granulation Tissue
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Rapid Contraction Phase
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Proud Flesh
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Proud Flesh Treatments
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Minimizing Proud Flesh
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More Info
To understand proud flesh, you have to understand wound healing and granulation tissue. When the skin is cut all the way through, it has to fill the defect in before the skin can grow across the top. The way the body does this is by creating granulation tissue. Granulation tissue is made by organizing clotted blood into very fine blood vessels called capillaries. The capillaries then provide nourishment to new skin cells. Briefly it goes like this:
- Skin Laceration causes bleeding and clots form.
- Blood clots organize into capillaries (granulation tissue)
- Granulation tissue bleeds very easily and new clots form and more granulation tissue is created on top of the old.
- The cycle of bleeding and organization goes around until the skin defect is filled.
- The size of the wound is reduced by contraction of the granulation bed.
- Skin cells migrate over the top of the granulation tissue bed.
This is fine, but horses have a habit of forming excessive amounts of granulation tissue which is known as proud flesh. This report deals with identifying, minimizing and treating proud flesh.
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| New proud flesh on old scar sight? | 1 | 9 | May 26, 06 |
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