Hyperbaric Oxygen effective option for non healing chronic diabetic foot ulcers
Hyperbaric Oxygen has been found to have a tremendous role in wound healing in refractory diabetic ulcers, finds a new study.;
US: Diabetic foot is one of the most significant and devastating complications of diabetes, defined as a foot affected by ulceration that is associated with neuropathy and/or peripheral arterial disease of the lower limb. It is estimated that about 5% of all patients with diabetes present with a history of foot ulceration, while the lifetime risk of diabetic patients developing this complication is 15%.
The majority (60–80%) of foot ulcers will heal, while 10–15% of them will remain active, and 5–24% of them will finally lead to limb amputation within a period of 6–18 months after the first evaluation. In the view of reducing this morbidity researchers at the University of Texas had done a double-blinded sham-controlled clinical trial which was published in the Journal of Diabetic Care.
The study was done to assess the efficacy of multimodality cyclical pressure Topical Wound Oxygen (TWO2) home care therapy in healing refractory diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) that had failed to heal with a standard of care (SOC) alone.
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