Dear Colleagues, If somebody uses non-removable cast share please with your experience. I have a type 1 DM patient with neuropathic 2B (UT) ulcer (see file ...
... experienced in putting on casts or do you have a good orthopedic surgeon in your team? If yes, then please go on using TCC, but remove the first cast...
... not more severe e.g. osteomyelitis. Are you sure that the MRSA is responsible for the infection? Did you just do a swab or a more profound curetage to be...
Dear Isabelle, Thank you for your reply! We excluded ischemia (good pulses) and osteomyelitis (negative probe to bone, no bone involvement on X-ray). ...
Dear Oleg In your case to minimise the Messaration and exudation you can make a window on TCC over the wound and frequently change the dressing and you will...
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Dear Jawadur (Dr. Wadud), Thank you for your comments (sorry for delayed reply). Last X-ray (in Septebmer) didn't reveal osteomyelitis, but I plan to repeat it...
http://www.acfas.org/pubresearch/cpg/diabetic-cpg.htm Robert FRYBERG said: This is the ACFAS Diabetic Foot Clinical Practice guideline just published last...
Hello! I am Juliana Lebedeva, Chelabinsk, Russia. I work at faculty surgery department, Chelyabinsk Medical Academy. My main interests in diabetic foot are...
This group is completely independent. A lot of members are also members of the DFSG (Diabetic Foot Study Group) but it is just because the topic is the same! ...
My dear Oleg, I am not sure that we have helped but it was interesting to hear the story and it will be interesting to know the rest and the end! About the...
Wellcomme to this group, Juliana! Which laser procedures you mean? Have you some experience with laser irradiation of wound? (I saw some patients in whom it...
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Thank you all again for your comments about my patients. But the story was continued… :( After Isablle's opinion that pathogen...
Dear Oleg We have diod laser in our hospital and are stating to use it for our patients. It seems work, but I think we should find clear regimens and...
Dear Friends, Russian Colleagues organised a bi-lingual forum on the Diabetic Foot. It was done because many Russian doctors can't speak English well enough to...
Very Very good idea Oleg, I hope it will bring more and more DF specialists to share knowledge and problems.... It will probably give you a lot of work with...
Dear Colleagues, Could you tell me: what degree of artery stenosis (by ultrasound scan) should be considered as hemodinamically significant? It's generally ...
Dear Colleagues, Recently we faced a problem of increasing number of patients on hemodyalisis with neuro-ischemic diabetic foot. We understand that they are in...
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Hi, I am very new in this group. I am interested to know about HBOT in diabetic foot treatment. Could anyone tell me about Hyperbaric oxyen uses for diabetic...
hello, HBOT is very popular method of treatment of the severe vascular diseases. Unfortunatly, there is no evidens of effectiveness. I sow many patients here...
Dear Palash, On the last (4th) Diabetic Foot World Symposium (in 2003) Professor Appelquist from Sweeden (in my hobble opinion, he is a great expert in ...
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Hello, I am a medical doctor from Belgium. I don't use HBOT and have no personal opinion on this subject. I think that Oleg gave you the best possible answer...
Sorry, I thought I had answered you earlier. I am not a patient. I just wanted to consider HBOT treatment for diabetic foot patients in Bangladesh. But, i see...
Thank you so much. Could you tell me about the 5 th world symposium on Diabetic foot, 2007. When and where it will be held? Related web links (if any). Thank...
Hello Palash, You will find everything you need about this congress here: http://www.diabeticfoot.nl/ Hope to see you in Holland. Isabelle, Dr Isabelle DUMONT ...