IJLEW in its teens.

Abstract

Now in its teens, IJLEW has developed into a leading voice for innovation and translation from being a “rolling textbook”—a mantle it donned on its inception. In common usage wound healing and wound care/management connote to signify science and management, respectively: How different are these tracks? Solutions from research laboratories are best developed when problems can be simplified to their finite elements (this is referred to as wound healing). These solutions are processed to offer innovations to clinical management (or wound care). All too often we have observed the outcomes of intensive scientific effort stall at the bedside—the lack of translational research is one reason for this. IJLEW sees translational research in wound science as being the essential conduit between the bench and the bedside. For these reasons, IJLEW presents original research in Basic and Experimental Sciences as well as Clinical and Translational Research to encourage researchers on one hand and clinicians on the other. Quite often young researchers transform into mature clinicians: experienced clinicians (practitioners) are invaluable allies to aspiring researchers. Such translation is of fundamental importance in the management of chronic diseases where wide gaps exist between clinical phenotypes modified by disease/environment and genotypes that lend themselves more easily to modeling. IJLEW issues will proudly communicate the best findings to promote clinical science, which is the meeting place between the laboratory and the clinic. This issue of IJLEW presents a series of very interesting articles. Jiang et al have an important update in “Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetic Foot Problems and Predictive Factors for Amputation in China,” while Papanas et al offer food for thought through their review, “Local Antibiotic Delivery Systems in Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: Time for One Step Beyond? Fu has some very interesting data that argue subliminally for optimizing the microcirculation in “Hypoxia Regulates the Therapeutic Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Through Enhanced Autophagy.” The Diabetic Foot Group in Pisa, led by Piaggesi, offer novel data on “The Safety and Effectiveness of Therapeutic Magnetic Resonance in Management of Postsurgical Lesion.” Liu and colleagues present important useful data in “The Association Between Skin Autofluorescence and Vascular Complications in Chinese Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcer: An Observational Study.” Finally, we wish our colleagues in the Southern hemisphere a happy summer ahead: for us in the Northern hemisphere, the longer days are here. 571826 IJLXXX10.1177/1534734615571826The International Journal of Lower Extremity WoundsRerkasem and Mani research-article2015