Diabetic foot ulcers are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among diabetics despite several care options. A paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology shares new trends in managing diabetic foot ulcers and the use of adjunctive therapies.
Treating hard-to-heal chronic diabetic foot ulcers
Patients suffering from chronic diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) have experienced at least a fourfold increase in healing over standard of care with 12 weeks of home-based topical wound oxygen (TWO2) therapy. This was studied by investigators in a sham-controlled, double-blind trials they described as “groundbreaking.”