Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is one of the complications that cause big problems in diabetics. One management DFU by utilizing hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) which an additional has been proven to be used treatment DFU. However, results its benefits and use are still being debated, so purpose this review evaluate effectiveness HBOT on healing diabetic foot wounds. The method research a literatur...

Elderly diabetic patients are at especially high risk of developing hypoglycaemia, diabetic retinopathy, foot ulcers and infection. We have surveyed 100 elderly diabetic inpatients to assess level of diabetes supervision, prevalence of risk factors for complications, and uptake of chiropody and fundoscopic services. Of all the diabetic patients, 19% received no supervision. A large proportion (...

Diabetic foot infection is an important complication in Diabetes mellitus. Despite recent medical advances in the treatment foot infection remains a major cause for morbidity and mortality in patients with this disorder. Proper management of these infections requires microbial isolation, appropriate or accurate selection of antibiotics. Understanding the bacteriology and accuracy of culture met...

Ubiquicidin 29-41 (UBI 29-41) is an antimicrobial peptide with six positively charged residues which preferentially binds to the negatively charged groups present on the microbial membrane by electrostatic interaction at the foci of infection. For this reason UBI 29-41 has been suggested to label by 99m Tc ( 99m Tc-UBI 2941)directly or by using coligand reagents like 6-hydrazinopyridine 3-carbo...

abstractintroduction: diabetes mellitus is the most common human metabolic disease and chronic non healing diabetic foot ulcers are a critical complication for these patients. angipars is a new herbal extract which has been introduced to accelerate healing of these ulcers. the purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of oral angipars in patients with chronic diabetic foo...

This issue of Seminars in Vascular Surgery is devoted to the evaluation and management of lower-limb wounds in the vascular surgery patient. In-depth discussions of common clinical conditions are presented on the topics of venous ulcer, diabetic foot infection, peripheral arterial disease (PAD) with tissue loss, and surgical site infection (SSI). The first article by Scalise et al discusses the...

BACKGROUND Australia is ranked ninth of 39 countries in the Western Pacific region most affected by diabetes. Patients with diabetes are at high risk of developing foot ulcerations that can develop into non-healing wounds. Recent studies suggest that the lifetime risk of developing a diabetic foot ulcer is as high as 25%. Few studies have reported the prevalence of, risk factors and socioeconom...

The diabetic foot infection remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in many patients and remains a challenging diagnosis for most clinicians. Diagnosis is largely based on clinical signs supplemented by various imaging tests. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is not readily available to many clinicians, and bone biopsy, which is the accepted criterion standard for diagnosis, is rarely p...

BACKGROUND India is fast becoming world diabetes capital. Diabetic foot infections are major problems among innumerable complications associated with diabetes. MATERIAL AND METHODS A randomized control study was conducted to evaluate the effect of topical phenytoin on healing in diabetic foot ulcers. One hundred patients with grade I/ II diabetic foot ulcers were randomly divided into two equ...