The functional and psychosocial sequelae remain a major rehabilitative challenge, decreasing quality of life and delaying reintegration into society. Now up to 70% of patients develop hypertrophic scars after burns. Improvements in acute burn care have enabled patients to survive massive burns that would have once been fatal. 6 Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA The Institute for Translational Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.5 St Andrew's Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, UK StAAR Research Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK.4 Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns, University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.3 Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.Electronic address: 2 Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada Division of Plastic Surgery Department of Surgery and Immunology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. 1 Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA The Institute for Translational Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA the Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA Shriners Hospitals for Children, Galveston, TX, USA.
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