Research on the Treatment of Diabetic Foot with Ulcer Based on Nano-Silver Antibacterial Dressing

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1220-1229
Author(s):  
Lumeng Yang ◽  
Fang Liu ◽  
Yijun Chen ◽  
Zhangyi Liu ◽  
Guowu Zhang

The incidence of diabetes has been increasing year by year. Long-term growth in blood sugar causes complications such as diabetic foot ulcer and infections, which will increase the difficulty of ulcer treatment. The diabetes brings great pain and heavy economic burden to patients and their families. In view of the above problems, a nano-silver antibacterial dressing is synthesized in this paper to control bacterial infection on the ulcer surface and promote wound healing. This paper describes the preparation process and morphological characterization of nano-silver antibacterial dressings. 100 patients were selected, which divided into two groups for comparative experiments. The conventional group used conventional vaseline dressing, and the control group was nano-silver antibacterial dressing. The ulcer surface healing time, the number of dressing changes, and the control of infection were analyzed separately, and statistical analysis was performed with SPSS19.0. The experimental results are as follows. The use of nano-silver antibacterial dressing can significantly reduce the incidence of infection in diabetic foot patients, which is helpful to reduce the number of dressing changes, shorten the healing time of ulcer, and accelerate the turnover rate. It helps to shorten the course of diabetic foot, and it is recommended to promote its clinical application.

Author(s):  
Vasanthi B. ◽  
Ainsy Goldlin T. J.

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of increased morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Foot ulcer is one of the long term complications of diabetes. Oxidative stress plays a major role in pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and its long term complications. Impaired wound healing in diabetic individuals is due to ischemia and hypoxia occurring as a consequence of oxidative stress. Vitamin C and E have antioxidant property. This study aims to assess their efficacy in healing of diabetic ulcer. Objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of Vitamin C and E in healing diabetic foot ulcer.Methods: 60 adult patients with diabetic foot ulcer were randomized to test and control groups (30 in each). Treatment period was 12 weeks + 4 weeks follow up per patient. After obtaining written informed consent, patients in test group received Vitamin C (500mg BD) and Vitamin E (400mg BD) for 12 weeks along with standard treatment for diabetes and antibiotics for foot ulcer.Results: At the end of 12 weeks, increase in healing of foot ulcer assessed by percent reduction of ulcer area in study group 72.50% than control group 39.67% (p<0.001) was observed. There was a significant reduction of fasting blood glucose, Oxidative stress induced damage to RBCs and BP in the study group compared to control group. No serious adverse effects occurred.Conclusions: Vitamin C and E reverse oxidative stress induced morphological changes in RBCs, improve anemia and increase blood flow to ulcer area. Hence they are highly effective in healing diabetic foot ulcer along with standard therapy. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Younes Najafian ◽  
Zahra M. Khorasani ◽  
Mona N. Najafi ◽  
Shokouh S. Hamedi ◽  
Marjan Mahjour ◽  
...  

Background:Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the most common complications of diabetic patients. Mostly, non-healing DFU leads to infection, gangrene, amputation and even death. High costs and poor healing of the wounds need a new treatment such as alternative medicine. So, the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Aloe vera/ Plantago major gel (Plantavera gel) in healing of DFUMethods:Forty patients with DFU enrolled in a double-blind randomized clinical trial. The patients who were randomly assigned into the intervention group (n = 20), received topical Plantavera gel in addition to the routine cares, whereas the patients in the control group (n = 20), received topical Placebo gel in addition to the routine cares. Intervention was done twice a day for 4 weeks in the both groups. Photography and an evaluation of DFU healing were conducted by a checklist and then were scored at baseline and at the end of each week. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS software.Results:At the end of the study, there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of total ulcer score (P<0.001) and Plantavera gel significantly reduced the ulcer surface comparing with the control group (P=0.039). However, there was not a significant difference between the two groups (P=0.263) in terms of the ulcer depth. During this study, no side effect was observed for Plantavera gel in the intervention group.Conclusion:Topical Plantavera gel seems to be an effective, cheap and safe treatment. Of course, further studies are required to confirm the properties of the wound healing of this gel.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1495
Author(s):  
Yu-Chi Wang ◽  
Hsiao-Chen Lee ◽  
Chien-Lin Chen ◽  
Ming-Chun Kuo ◽  
Savitha Ramachandran ◽  
...  

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a serious complication in diabetic patients and lead to high morbidity and mortality. Numerous dressings have been developed to facilitate wound healing of DFUs. This study investigated the wound healing efficacy of silver-releasing foam dressings versus silver-containing cream in managing outpatients with DFUs. Sixty patients with Wagner Grade 1 to 2 DFUs were recruited. The treatment group received silver-releasing foam dressing (Biatain® Ag Non-Adhesive Foam dressing; Coloplast, Humlebaek, Denmark). The control group received 1% silver sulfadiazine (SSD) cream. The ulcer area in the silver foam group was significantly reduced compared with that in the SSD group after four weeks of treatment (silver foam group: 76.43 ± 7.41%, SSD group: 27.00 ± 4.95%, p < 0.001). The weekly wound healing rate in the silver foam group was superior to the SSD group during the first three weeks of treatment (p < 0.05). The silver-releasing foam dressing is more effective than SSD in promoting wound healing of DFUs. The effect is more pronounced in the initial three weeks of the treatment. Thus, silver-releasing foam could be an effective wound dressing for DFUs, mainly in the early period of wound management.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S773-S775
Author(s):  
Alexander A Ozoria Loveras ◽  
Jacques Paré Espinal ◽  
David de luna ◽  
Noemi Acevedo

Abstract Background In 2018, a review of the scientific literature identifed biofilm studies in the past 3 years. Wherein, the role of the biofilm in the progression of the diabetic foot ulcer with the presence of biofilm is reviewed. As a result, tissue sampling is more effective than transcure, Levin, and aspiration. A study in Cuba evaluate the effectiveness of a new proposal for antimicrobial treatment in patients with diabetic foot infection in 2017. The method used was a experimental type of two groups. The control group, was treated with the treatment scheme proposed in the Comprehensive Care Program for the patient with diabetic foot ulcer (PAIPUPD). Instead, the other experimental group was treated according to the scheme based on the local microbial map. They used a random distribution. Using the Wagner classification, there were patients classificate with a grade of W2 (13% of patients), W3 (66%) and W4 (12%). The most frequent germs found were Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Enterobacter sp. The experimental group required less days with hospitalization. Methods This is an observational study of primary source with a non-probability sample with 58 patients. Adult patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus, with diabetic foot, Wagner classification 1, 2 and 3, who attended the healing area of the Institute of Diabetes of Santiago were included. After identifying the colonized pathogen, its cicatrization process was evaluate for four weeks. Results Of the total sample, 12.07% belonged to Wagner 1, 43.1% to Wagner 2 and 44.83% to the Wagner 3 classification. In the case of the Wagner 3 group, S. aureus and Pseudomona aeruginosa were present in 6 cases. Despite the infectious processes detected by the culture, the patients showed a successful cicatrization process after four weeks of evaluation. Graph 1: Isolated Microorganism Vs Wagner’s Degree (n=60) Graph 2: Gram positive microorganism vs. healing process per week in patients with diabetic foot (n=22) Graph 3: Gram-negative microorganism vs. healing process (n=33) Conclusion During the four weeks of clinical evaluation, more than 88% of patients progressed positively to clinical recovery, regardless of the type of bacteria colonized and/or their resistance to antibiotics. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures


JPRAS Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Terabe ◽  
Nobuhito Kaneko ◽  
Keisuke Nakabayashi ◽  
Akihiro Matsui ◽  
Hiroshi Ando

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. e0177176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Smith-Strøm ◽  
Marjolein M. Iversen ◽  
Jannicke Igland ◽  
Truls Østbye ◽  
Marit Graue ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Ekanova R. N. Sumarauw ◽  
Mendy J. Hatibie ◽  
Djony E. Tjandra ◽  
Fredrik G. Langi

Abstract: Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is still a health problem related to the extent amount of time in wound healing process hence increasing the treatment cost. Given any methods that are not sat-isfying, encourage the search of other methods that would increase the wound healing rate, in which hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is amongst them. The DFU patient that receives HBOT shows a significant increase in angiogenesis process markedly by faster epithelialization and granulation process. This study was aimed to prove that HBOT could accelerate the wound healing process among DFU patients measured by wound size and depth of PEDIS score. This was a ran-domized controlled trial study, conducted at Surgery Department of Prof. Dr. R. D. Kandou Gen-eral Hospital from September 2018 to March 2019. There were 20 DFU patients divided into two groups, each of 10 patients. The control group received a holistic treatment, meanwhile the HBOT group received a holistic treatment added with the inclusion of HBOT. PEDIS score assessment of DFU in HBOT group was measured before and after the third HBOT session, meanwhile the con-trol group was measured on the first and the third day. The results showed that the difference in PEDIS score value was markedly found in HBOT group compared to the control group (2 vs. 0, P=0.001). Conclusion: HBOT could enhance the wound healing process in DFU patients based on the declined PEDIS score.Keywords: HBOT, PEDIS score, diabetic foot ulcerAbstrak: Ulkus kaki diabetik (UKD) masih merupakan masalah kesehatan terkait proses penyembuhan lama sehingga biaya pengobatan meningkat. Belum adanya metode penanganan yang memuaskan, mendorong pencarian metode percepatan penyembuhan luka, salah satunya ialah terapi oksigen hiperbarik (TOHB). Penderita UKD yang menjalani tambahan TOHB diketahui mengalami peningkatan proses angiogenesis yang menghasilkan proses epitelialisasi dan granulasi yang lebih cepat. Tujuan penelitian ialah untuk membuktikan bahwa TOHB dapat mempercepat proses penyembuhan UKD, dinilai berdasarkan ukuran dan kedalaman luka melalui skor PEDIS. Penelitian ini menggunakan randomized controlled trial dan dilaksanakan di Bagian Bedah RSUP Prof. Dr. R.D. Kandou Manado sejak September 2018 sampai dengan Maret 2019. Subyek penelitian sebanyak 20 penderita UKD, dibagi dalam dua kelompok, masing-masing 10 penderita. Kelompok kontrol menjalani penanganan holistik UKD, sedangkan kelompok TOHB menjalani penanganan holistik UKD dengan TOHB. Penilaian skor PEDIS terhadap UKD pada kelompok TOHB dilakukan sebelum dan sesudah TOHB sesi ke-3, sedangkan pada kelompok kontrol dilakukan penilaian pada hari ke-1 dan hari ke-3 sesudahnya. Hasil penelitian mendapatkan bahwa perubahan skor PEDIS yang terjadi antara kedua pengukuran terlihat lebih besar pada kelompok TOHB dibandingkan kelompok kontrol (2 vs 0, P=0,001). Simpulan. TOHB mempercepat proses penyembuhan UKD dinilai dari penurunan skor PEDIS.Kata kunci: TOHB, skor PEDIS, ulkus kaki diabetik


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