| abstract |
Method for determining whether a non-diabetic subject with venous stasis ulceration, or with a disease or condition characterized by chronically impaired cutaneous wound healing in some patients, and as such a disease or condition selected from among the group consisting of pressure sores and surgical skin wounds that do not heal, is a subject that does heal wounds or a subject that does not heal wounds, said method comprising the step of: comparing the level of a product related to nitric oxide in a subject sample with a threshold value that discriminates between subjects who do heal their wounds and subjects who do not heal their wounds, where if the level of the product related to nitric oxide is above the threshold value, the subject is a subject who does heal his wounds, and if the level of the product related to nitric oxide is approximately at or below infer Above the threshold value, the subject is a subject whose wounds are not healed. |