Background: The wound dressings perform a crucial role in cutaneous wounds management due to their ability protect and promote dermal epidermal tissue regeneration. Aim: the aim was evaluate effectiveness of using hydrogel/nano silver-based dressing vs. traditional on diabetic foot healing. Methods: Sixty patients with type-2 diabetes hospitalized for treatment were recruited from selected Surg...

A description of a clinical case long-standing diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is presented below. Patient with non-healing 3 years duration. Ulcer graded using Wagner’s classification DFU. Homoeopathic medicines are also given along his conventional treatment. mother tincture (MT) Syzygium Jambolanum was used as an external application.Aim this study to demonstrate the effectiveness application add-...

Both osteomyelitis and Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy (CN) are potentially limb-threatening complications of diabetic neuropathy, but they require quite different treatments. Almost all bone infections in the diabetic foot originate from an infected foot ulcer while diabetic osteoarthropathy is a non-infectious process in which peripheral neuropathy plays the critical role. Differentiating betw...

Telomerase is the enzyme that maintains telomere length by adding telomeric repeats after each cell division. Numerous metabolic factors such as obesity, insulin resistance or physical inactivity have been associated with shortened telomeres. In the present study, we assessed telomerase activity in diabetic patients having or not foot ulcer. A total of 90 adult patients with type 2 diabetes mel...

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a severe complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). Patients with DFU have increased mortality and morbidity as well decreased quality life (QoL). The present scoping review aims to study the social issues diabetic foot. Following PRISMA guidelines, was conducted in two databases (Scopus Pubmed) use following keywords: “social aspects foot”, characteristics “demographi...

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is the major global and devastating complication of diabetes mellitus that affects at least 20% of diabetic patients during their lifetime. This article presents an overview of the research evidence on maggot debridement therapy that serves as a guide to health professionals who may be users of this form of treatment now and in the future. It is a time to apply this sa...

background: epidemiological characteristics of diabetic foot infection in our region are not clear. the purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiological features of diabetic foot infection in babol, north of iran. methods: from march, 2005 to april, 2010, the epidemiological features of 450 cases of diabetic foot infection treated in two main teaching hospitals of babol medical univer...