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Review: Wound Site as a Predictor in Deep Nail Puncture Complications
Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Journal Review ClubEditor's note: This post is part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine (TUSPM) journal review club blog series. In each...
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Review: Effects of Hypochlorous Acid Solution on Venous Leg Ulcers
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Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Journal Review ClubEditor's note: This post is part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine (TUSPM) journal review club blog series. In each...
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Review: Opioid Treatment and Chronic Wound Healing
While opioids are routinely prescribed for painful and chronic wounds, the effects of the medications are not well described in literature. Past studies suggest that stimulation of mu-opiate receptors...
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Review: Effectiveness of Compression Stocking Treatment on Venous Leg Ulcer...
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) affect 3% of all people aged 65 years and older. After healing, the recurrence rate can be as high as 69%, making the treatment of VLUs costly to the healthcare system. In...
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Review: Atmospheric Pressure Plasma as a Treatment for Diabetic Wounds
Wound healing occurs in four phases: hemostasis, inflammation, tissue growth, and tissue remodeling. The process of wound healing can be affected by multiple factors, including oxygenation, age,...
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Review: The Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Diabetic foot ulcers often present in patients with diabetes mellitus, and are a serious and challenging complication that often requires time and costly procedures to treat. Diabetic foot ulcers are...
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Review: Keloid Management: A Retrospective Case Review on a New Approach
Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Journal Review ClubKeloids are fibrous lesions made of collagen types I and III that arise from an area of wound healing, outside the margins of the...
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Review: Major Histopathologic Diagnoses of Chronic Wounds
Chronic wounds are clinically defined as wounds that have failed to proceed through a healing process in a timely and biologically efficient manner. They are easily identified due to their presence of...
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Review: Treatment of Chronic Diabetic Lower Extremity Ulcers with Advanced...
Chronic wounds and ulcerations induced by complications associated with diabetes mellitus have proven to be a burden to the patients themselves, as well as the healthcare system as a whole. This burden...
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Review: Comparing the Effectiveness of Cellular and/or Tissue-Based Products...
One fourth of the approximately 22.3 million patients with diabetes in the United States are expected to develop a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) at some point during their lives, and it is estimated to...
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Review: Layering of Different Materials to Achieve Optimal Conditions for...
Wounds tend to follow a certain algorithm when healing, which can be summed down to three distinct phases: hemostasic/inflammatory, proliferative, and remodeling. Chronic wounds are characterized as...
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Review: Cryopreserved Human Skin Allograft for the Treatment of Wounds With...
Wounds with exposed bone and tendon are a major concern for physicians due to the significant morbidity that they can cause. The primary focus of this study is to determine the efficacy and safety of a...
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Review: Outcomes of Human Acellular Dermal Matrix Treatment of Diabetic Foot...
Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Journal Review ClubEditor's note: This post is part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine (TUSPM) journal review club blog series. In each...
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Review: Assessing Stress During Wound Care in Real-Time Using Wearable Sensors
Within the last decade, the rise of diabetes in the U.S. population has been matched with a rise in diabetic foot ulcers requiring amputations. Because many of these diabetic foot ulcers develop...
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Review: Wound Healing and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Topical Hyaluronic...
Staphylococcus aureus is a primary cause of post-operative surgical site infection. S. aureus produces hyaluronidase, which degrades hyaluronic acid (HA). HA is important in wound healing because it...
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Review: Lower Extremity Amputation and Reamputation Predictors in Patients...
A major concern in managing patients with diabetes is their susceptibility to acquiring ulcers in their feet. If these patients are not careful, these ulcers may become infected and eventually lead to...
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Review: Perfusion-Decellularized Porcine Hepatic-Derived Wound Matrix in...
Twenty-five percent of all diabetic patients will develop a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), the major reason for hospitalizations in diabetic patients. The current standard of care (SOC) for DFUs consists...
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Review: Effective Wound Bed Preparation Using Maggot Debridement Therapy for...
Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Journal Review ClubEditor's note: This post is part of the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine (TUSPM) journal review club blog series. In each...
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Review: Diabetic Wound Healing and LED Irradiation
Diabetes mellitus is frequently associated with chronic non-healing wounds, many of which result in amputation. The combination of peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, and impaired immune function...
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