Maggot therapy, alginate dressing, and surgical sharp debridement: Unique path to save unresponsive diabetic foot ulcer.

Introduction And Importance: Diabetic foot ulcers are a severe complication of diabetes mellitus, affecting a significant proportion of the diabetic population. In some cases, ulcer progression and infection can lead to the need for amputation.

Case Presentation: An 84-year-old male with a history of poorly controlled type 2 DM and HTN presented with an infected DFU on the plantar aspect of his right foot.

Surgical debridement and maggot debridement therapy (MDT) bring the light of hope to patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs): A case report.

Introduction And Importance: Management of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), one of the complications of diabetes mellitus, can lead to death and amputation, and it is one of the most critical challenges for the patients and their families.

Case Presentation: The present case report concerns a 72-year-old man with a 5-year history of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus. The patient had antibiotic-resistant DFUs on two phalanges of his left foot, which were completely gangrenous, and a superficial ulcer of 1 × 1 cm under his left foot.

Treating surgical site infection by honey antibacterial wound dressing in a neonate: a case report.

Surgical site infection (SSI) increases length of treatment, delays wound healing, increases antibiotic use and causes patient death in severe cases. This case was a boy aged 38 weeks and 4 days with a birthweight of 2100 g, a height of 42 cm and a head circumference of 32 cm. Twelve days after birth, he was admitted to hospital where a surgeon removed a sacrococcygeal teratoma.

Saving diabetic foot ulcers from amputation by surgical debridement and maggot therapy: A case report.

Introduction And Importance: A diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the major diabetes complications that may lead to limb amputation. Amputation can have profound physical and psychological effects on an individual's life. Nowadays, the prevention of limb amputation and treatment of DFUs are known as the major health challenges.

Surgical debridement, maggot therapy, negative pressure wound therapy, and silver foam dressing revive hope for patients with diabetic foot ulcer: A case report.

Introduction And Importance: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), as one of the most debilitating complications of diabetes, can lead to amputation. Treatment and management of d DFUs are among the most critical challenges for the patients and their families.

Case Presentation: The present case report is of a 63-year-old man with a 5-year history of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes who has had DFU for the past three years on three sites of the left external ankle in the form of two deep circular ulcers with sizes of 6 × 4 cm and 6 × 8 cm, the sole as a superficial ulcer with a size of 6 × 3 cm, and the left heel as a deep skin groove.

Treating post-renal transplant surgical site infection with combination therapy: a case study.

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common and debilitating complications of surgery. The risk of SSI rises if the patient has underlying health-related risk factors. This article reports on the complicated case of 61-year-old female with a history of obesity and diabetes.

NPWT: a gate of hope for patients with diabetic foot ulcers.

Non-healing diabetic foot ulcers are a common and costly complication of type 2 diabetes and can result in lower extremity amputation. This case study concerns a 51-year-old man with a 17-year history of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. He had developed a deep ulcer to the calcaneus of his left foot, which was 12x7 cm in size and infected with multi-drug-resistant .