Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the association between quality of life and wound severity in patients with recurrent diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: total sample comprised 86 DFU patients. Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale – Short Form scale was used to collect data, Wagner grading assess severity. Statistical analyses were conducted using Mann-Whitney...

background: diabetic foot ulcer is one of the major problems suffered by diabetic patients, so much so that the annual incidence of this problem has increased from 0.1% to 4.1% in diabetic patients and the probability of its incidence is over 25% during the diabetic individual's life. case presentation: the patient was a 74-year-old woman with diabetes for more than 20 years. she was hospi...

conclusions trichloroacetic acid and autologous fibroblast can be considered as therapeutic choice for recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcer. introduction foot ulcer, with a prevalence of 15% in general population, is one of the main complications in patients with diabetes. so far, different therapeutic methods have been provided for the treatment of foot ulcers. when no response to the standard tre...

Abstract There are several factors that affect the efficiency of phagocytic activity in diabetic patients. In this study, a significant difference phagocytosis showed patients and controls (non-diabetic). The means were 43.05%, 52.70% 71.35% for foot ulcer, diabetes mellitus respectively. Age groups, mean blood glucose levels controlling fasting effects on (P-value = 0.022, 0.013 0.045) was rev...

Phenytoin (diphenlhydantion or Dilantin) is a highly effective and widely prescribed anticonvulsant agent and antiarrhythmic agent in the treatment of grand mal and psychomotor epilepsy. Phentoin was introduced into therapy in 1937 for effective convulsive disorder with a common side effect being gingival hyperplasia. In dermatology due to the stimulatory effect on the connective tissue it is u...

AIMS Deciding if a diabetic foot ulcer is infected in a community setting is challenging without validated point-of-care tests. Four inflammatory biomarkers were investigated to develop a composite algorithm for mildly infected diabetic foot ulcers: venous white cell count, C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin, and a novel wound exudate calprotectin assay. Calprotectin is a marker of neut...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for impaired healing of peptic ulcers, and there are currently no supplementary therapeutics other than the standard antipeptic medicine to improve the ulcer healing in diabetes. This study examined the potential pleiotropic effect of a glucagon-like peptide (Glp)-1 analogue exendin (Ex)-4 on the regeneration of gastric ulcer in strepto...

Objective: The current study was conducted to compare the effect of 150,000 and 300,000 IU of vitamin D on the healing status of diabetic foot ulcer among the patients with diabetes. Materials and Methods: This randomized clinical trial was carried out on 47 patients with diabetic foot ulcer and vitamin deficiency during four weeks follow-up. The patients were randomly assigned into two groups...

Various studies have indicated that peptic ulcers occurring during the course of diabetic state are more severe and often associated with complications such as gastrointestinal bleeding. This study is an attempt to understand the pathogenesis of indomethacin-induced gastric ulcers occurring during the diabetic state using suitable markers and its amelioration by quercetin and coenzyme Q10 (CoQ1...