In the world practice of treating
burns, acellular matrices have been used for quite a long time. However, the budget for treating one
burn patient in Kazakhstan does not exceed $1000. This amount does not cover the costs for procurement of foreign-made
xenograft dressings. Because the cattle breeding sector is very well-developed in the country, a domestic xenograft is produced by decellularization and sterilization of the cattle peritoneum, which costs only $10. This case report outlines how we used this matrix in a patient with partial thickness
burns. A 45-year-old woman was admitted to the
burn department with second stage
burns on her back and right shoulder. The
burn area comprised 10%, according to the Lund Browder chart. Once formal consent was obtained from the patient, an
occlusive dressing was applied from the decellularized cattle peritoneum. Good adhesion of the dressing to the
wound bed was noted. The patient was discharged from the hospital on the tenth day. It took 23 days to reach complete epithelialization. No adverse effects were noted. We believe that further studies conducted by our research team will allow this innovative, low-cost, easy-to-apply
biologic dressing to be widely used in the therapeutic treatment of
burns.