UNLABELLED Reliable measures of wound size are critical to wound healing research and clinical management. Measurement of full-thickness wounds is increasingly being done using digital images and photogrammetric software, such as VeVMD (Vista Medical, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), to estimate wound volume. The reliability of VeVMD in determining wound volume is unknown. The present study sought ...

OBJECTIVE Chronic foot ulcers are a common, severe, and expensive complication threatening life and limb in patients with diabetes. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of dalteparin on ulcer outcome in patients with diabetes, peripheral arterial occlusive disease, and chronic foot ulcers. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 87 patients were investigated in a prospect...

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...

In an attempt to define the role of autonomic neuropathy in the pathogenesis of diabetic foot ulcers, we have studied diabetic patients with and without ulcers, and a group of non-diabetic controls. A series of standard autonomic function tests have been compared with measurement of the Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). Patients with foot ulcers showed evidence of more severe somatic and autonomic ...

AIMS To assess temporal changes in foot ulceration and its risk factors in community-based people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS Baseline data from the longitudinal observational Fremantle Diabetes Study collected from 1993 to 1996 (Phase I) and 2008 to 2011 (Phase II) were analyzed. Generalized linear modeling was used to examine changes in foot ulcer prevalence and its associates between pha...

Introduction: Foot complications are a major cause of hospitalization in patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM), which consumes high number hospital days because multiple surgical procedures and prolonged length stay. Patients DM have up to 25% lifetime risk developing foot ulcer, precedes amputation 85% cases. A mainstay Diabetic Ulcer (DFU) therapy is debridement all necrotic, callus, fibrous t...

This study aims to determine the relationship between foot care knowledge and risk of ulcers in Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients. type research is quantitative using a cross-sectional design. The results showed that most DM patients had moderate (68.2%) with an average injuries (63.5%). In conclusion, there no significant about developing diabetic ulcers.
 
 Keywords: Knowledge, Foot C...

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of diabetic foot ulcers and their risk factors among patients attending the National Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Genetics (Amman, Jordan). Materials and Methods: A systematic random sample of 1,000 diabetic patients was selected from patients attending the diabetes clinic at the National Center for Diabetes, Endo...