Clinical Study Finds Burn Patients Treated with Kerecis® Omega3 Intact Fish Skin Experienced Pain Relief, Fast Healing and No Infections

LAS VEGAS, April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Kerecis, the company pioneering the use of fish skin in tissue regeneration, today announced the results of a new prospective case study of Kerecis Omega3 Burn. The study, announced at the American Burn Association annual meeting, found that patients with partial-thickness burn and donor-site wounds healed quickly, with no infection, after treatment with the fish-skin graft. The study was conducted at the Burn Centre of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the major burn centers in England.

Kerecis develops fish-skin products to heal human tissue damage such as burn wounds. Because no disease-transfer risk exists between cold-water fish and humans, Kerecis' gently processed fish skin can be used as a substitute for human skin. Mammalian-sourced skin needs to be harshly processed to eliminate disease-transfer risk, which makes it more dissimilar to human skin and less able to heal human wounds and tissue damage. Fish skin also contains Omega3 fatty acids, which enhance wound healing. The products will be on display at the American Burn Association annual meeting April 2 to 5 in Las Vegas (booth 330).

Ten patients with split-thickness skin grafting for burn injuries were treated with Kerecis Omega3 Burn, and two other patients were treated for deep, partial-thickness burns.

Summary of Major Results

Deep, partial-thickness burn wounds

• The burn wounds were completely epithelialized at two weeks.
• The patients found the fish skin to be comfortable and to immediately reduce their pain.
• The results were aesthetically pleasing with minimal scarring.

Donor-site wounds

• It took an average of 8.5 days for the donor-site wounds to be 90% epithelialized, and 11.5 days to be 100% epithelialized.
• The quality of donor-site healing was judged to be good in all cases.
• No patient experienced any adverse reactions to the fish skin or had any incidences of infection of the wounds.

The study was conducted by Doctors Khurshid Alam of the North Middlesex University Hospital in London, and Lt. Colonel Steven LA Jeffery, a senior military officer with the UK Army Medical Corps who has served as a combat surgeon in Afghanistan multiple times.

The case study, which is described in Military Medicine, Vol. 184, March/April Supplement 2019, is available at https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/184/supplement_1/16/5418680

About Kerecis

Kerecis is pioneering the use of fish skin and fatty-acids in the globally expanding cellular therapy and regenerative medicine market. The fatty-acid rich (including Omega3) products from the company's patented technologies enable the body to regenerate tissues, rather than simply repair them and risk scarring. The Kerecis products, which are based on Omega3 rich fish skin, are currently being used to regenerate tissue in trauma and chronic wounds such as burns and diabetic wounds. Kerecis is also developing products for areas such as oral surgery, plastic surgery and neurological applications. The company's mission is to support the body's ability to regenerate tissues and its vision is to become a world leader in tissue regeneration. For more information, visit www.kerecis.com.

Kerecis is a registered trademark of Kerecis. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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