introduction: : low level laser therapy (lllt) is gaining acceptance in clinical applications. for example, it is used as therapeutic modality in the repair of diabetic foot ulcer when conventional therapy was not effective, separately. the aim of this study is to determine the effect of local and travenous lllt for the healing of diabetic foot ulcer. methods:   this study contains 74 diabetic ...

background: foot ulcers (fu) are a significant complication of diabetes mellitus (dm) and a preceding factor leading to lower extremity amputation. the aim of this study was to evaluate the management of diabetic foot ulcer (dfu) in babol, north of iran. methods: five hundred twenty cases of diabetic foot ulcer that were hospitalized in two main teaching hospitals of babol university of medical...

conclusions prp dressing could significantly decrease the depth and surface area of dfus in a three-week period. background some of the studies confirmed the effectiveness of platelet rich plasma (prp) in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (dfu). however, these studies had small sample size and used different methods such as prp gel or prp injections. the results are also contraversial. obje...

conclusions to sum up, honey dressing with and without olive oil could successfully prevent the risk of amputation in case of diabetic foot ulcers. introduction as a common diabetic complication, foot ulcers may cause a huge burden both on the patient and healthcare system. the current study aims at investigating the effectiveness of honey dressing in the presence or absence of olive oil in dia...

Diabetes mellitus is a widely spread chronic disease with growing incidence worldwide, and diabetic foot ulcer is one of the most serious complications of diabetes. Cellular therapy has shown promise in the management of diabetic foot ulcer in many preclinical experiments and clinical researches. Here, we performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cellular therapy in the m...

Previous studies have demonstrated that the gastric mucosa of diabetic rats is highly vulnerable to acute injury but the influence of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and their new nitric oxide (NO) releasing derivatives of aspirin (NO-ASA) on the ulcer healing under diabetic conditions has been little studied. In this study streptozocin (STZ, 70 mg/kg injected intraperitoneally) wa...

BACKGROUND Glycemic control is a known modifiable risk factor for diabetic foot disease. Prior attempts to define its relationship with diabetic foot ulcer and Charcot arthropathy fail to account for variability in control and duration of diabetic disease. We developed a novel metric to reflect aggregate disease exposure in a diabetic, termed cumulative glycemic burden. We hypothesized that it ...

Diabetic foot diseases affects almost 6.3 percent of world wide diabetic population which includes neuropathies, ischemia, infections and ulcers. High risk factor for poor control, neuropathy, deformity, high plantar pressure previous history amputation. Early screening with patient education basic care advise can prevent the onset Treatment ulcer requires regular debridement non healing ulcer,...