Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are classified as hard-to-heal wounds, which occur in approximately 15% of diabetic patients. Several interventions have shown efficacy in reducing the risk of amputation among patients with DFU, including timely diagnosis and management of infection and ischemia, debridement of necrotic tissues, reducing mechanical pressure on ulcers, and patient education. One major challenge in the management of DFUs is optimizing wound care to improve healing outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPermethrin (PER) is widely employed as the most frequently used type I synthetic pyrethroid insecticide. Despite its worldwide application, reports of pediatric toxicity following permethrin administration are scarce. The present report describes the case of a 12-year-old girl with cardiac and respiratory arrest resulting from self-induced oral toxicity by permethrin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the last months of the coronavirus pandemic, with all those public restrictions and health interventions, the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) appears now to have been raised in some countries around the world. Iran was one of those first countries facing the second wave of coronavirus, due to the lack of appropriate public restrictions because of economic problems the country is facing. The clinical and demographic characteristics of severe cases and non-severe cases of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in 192 patients in Tehran, Iran, between June 16 and July 11, 2020, were investigated.
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