Monitoring wound progression to healing in diabetic foot ulcers using three-dimensional wound imaging.

Aim: 3D wound imaging has provided clinicians with even greater wound measurement options. No data is available to guide clinicians as to which 3D measurements may yield the most reflective marker of wound progression to healing.

Method: A prospective pilot study was undertaken to assess the accuracy of five 3D wound measurements that best reflect metrics of interest to clinicians.

Chronic Madura foot: mycetoma and/or spp or actinomycosis.

A 58-year-old agricultural worker from a remote Western province farming community in Saudi Arabia presented with a 2-year history of right plantar foot soft tissue mass. According to the patient, the swelling had gradually increased in size over a few years, but it was painless and thus had not restricted him from continuing to farm until the lesion started to affect mobility. An MRI, microbiology and histopathology reported a rare infectious agent- spp, otherwise referred to as Madura foot.

Relationship between person's health beliefs and diabetes self-care management regimen.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between the health beliefs of Saudi adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and their adherence to daily diabetes self-care management regimen. A secondary aim was to examine the health beliefs of adults with a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) and participants without a DFU.

Method: Descriptive correlational design with a convenience sample of 30 participants.