Publications by authors named "Lorenza Abbruzzese"

We aimed to analyze sex-related differences in clinical outcomes among patients with diabetic foot disease (DFD) managed in a third-level referral center. We retrospectively analyzed data of admissions performed in our department between 2011 and 2015 for DFD. We collected demographic and clinical data, procedures performed during the admission, and short- and long-term outcomes in terms of healing rate and healing time, major amputation, and mortality rates during the follow-up.

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Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) represents an acute inflammatory immune-mediated demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy with an incidence of 0.6 per 100 000 people. In this article, we report the case of a 19-year-old girl affected by GBS since the age of 2 who presented at our clinic complaining for a chronic plantar hindfoot-infected ulceration.

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Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the adherence to guideline recommended medical therapies in type 2 diabetic patients with chronic critical limb ischemia (CCLI).

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the data of 1315 admissions performed in our Department, focusing on diabetic foot patients (842-64%) of which 603 consecutive type 2 diabetic patients with CCLI (M/F(%): 73/27; age: 70.3 ± 10.

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There are still many unmet needs in the treatment of chronic wounds, especially regarding microenvironment modulation. Nexodyn is a novel super-oxidized solution capable of contrast bacterial proliferation. We aimed to evaluate if this solution, on top of standard of care, was safe and effective in improving diabetic foot outcome.

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To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of therapeutic magnetic resonance (TMR) in the management of the diabetic foot (DF), we treated a group of consecutive type 2 diabetic inpatients with wide postsurgical lesions (Group A: N = 10; age 67.7 ± 18.9 years, duration of diabetes 22.

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We evaluated the safety and efficacy of sulodexide, a biocompound of glycosamin-glicans, as adjunct medical therapy to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI). We studied 27 consecutive DM patients with CLI successfully subjected to PTA who, on top of standard antiplatelet therapy, received sulodexide 25 mg bid, and were followed-up for 24 weeks, monitoring adverse events, transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO), ankle-brachial pressure index, pain, and ulcer dimension. At the end of follow-up, ulcer healing, amputation rates, and cardiovascular risk profile of patients were evaluated.

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