This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of cryopreserved amniotic membrane (AM) grafts in chronic wound healing, including the mean percentage of wound closure per one AM application, and to determine whether the healing efficiency differs between AM grafts obtained from different placentas. A retrospective study analyzing inter-placental differences in healing capacity and mean wound closure after the application of 96 AM grafts prepared from nine placentas. Only the placentas from which the AM grafts were applied to patients suffering from long-lasting non-healing wounds successfully healed by AM treatment were included. The data from the rapidly progressing wound-closure phase (p-phase) were analyzed. The mean efficiency for each placenta, expressed as an average of wound area reduction (%) seven days after the AM application (baseline, 100%), was calculated from at least 10 applications. No statistical difference between the nine placentas' efficiency was found in the progressive phase of wound healing. The 7-day average wound reduction in particular placentas varied from 5.70 to 20.99% (median from 1.07 to 17.75) of the baseline. The mean percentage of wound surface reduction of all analyzed defects one week after the application of cryopreserved AM graft was 12.17 ± 20.12% (average ± SD). No significant difference in healing capacity was observed between the nine placentas. The data suggest that if there are intra- and inter-placental differences in AM sheets' healing efficacy, they are overridden by the actual health status of the subject or even the status of its individual wounds.

2nd Department of Surgery Department of Cardiovascular Surgery 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Prague Czech Republic

Clinic of Dermatovenerology General Teaching Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague Czech Republic

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Motol University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Department of Transplantation and Tissue Bank Motol University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Department of Vascular Surgery Na Homolce Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Laboratory of the Biology and Pathology of the Eye Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General University Hospital Prague Albertov 4 128 01 Prague Czech Republic

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