Efficacy and Safety of Recombinant Human Granulocyte-macrophage Colony-stimulating Factor Hydrogel in Treating Second- or Third-degree Burn Wounds in Children: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Overview

Journal Transl Pediatr

Publisher AME Publishing Company

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2024 Aug 15

PMID 39144432

Authors

Nan Hu

Yanni Wang

Myriam Galfo

Hongyan Qi

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Abstract

Background: The efficacy and safety of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) hydrogel in adults with deep partial-thickness burns have been confirmed. However, the clinical safety and efficacy analysis of rhGM-CSF in pediatrics is lacking, and the results are questionable. Therefore, a meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of rhGM-CSF hydrogel in children with second- or third-degree burn injury to provide evidence-based medicine for clinical application.

Methods: Articles on rhGM-CSF hydrogel for the treatment of pediatric burn wounds were retrieved from PubMed, Embase, WOS, Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang from the inception of the databases to March 2024. Two reviewers screened articles and extracted the following data: general characteristics, intervention and treatment course, outcome measure. The meta-analysis was conducted using Revman 5.4 software.

Results: Eight reports (336 patients: experimental 175, control 161) were ultimately included in the meta-analysis, which showed that the experimental group (rhGM-CSF hydrogel ± other therapy) was superior to the control group (treatments without rhGM-CSF hydrogel) in terms of the wound healing rates at day 7 [mean difference (MD) =13.63, 95% confidence interval (CI): 7.25 to 20.00, P<0.001], day 14 (MD =15.59, 95% CI: 12.50 to 18.69, P<0.001), and day 21 (MD =7.47, 95% CI: 7.36 to 7.58, P<0.001), and the wound healing time (MD =-3.10, 95% CI: -3.50 to -2.71, P<0.001), and the differences were statistically significant. For the risks of bias, one study had a "high risk" in allocation sequence concealment, and the others were classified as "low risk" and "unclear risk".

Conclusions: rhGM-CSF hydrogel is significantly effective in improving the wound healing rate and shortening the wound healing time in children with second- or third-degree burns.

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