foot ulceration

Global Clinical Practice

Evaluation of Risk Factors for Foot Ulceration in Individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease

10/24/2023

Vacide Aşık Özdemir

Nesrin Nural

Authors sought to raise awareness about the risk of foot ulceration among patients with chronic kidney disease by comparing rates of lower limb ulcerations among those patients with and without diabetes mellitus and those who did or did not...

Authors sought to raise...

10/24/2023

Wounds

Case Report

The Custom Total Contact Cast to Offload Foot Ulcers in the Presence of Biomechanical Deformities: A Case Report

03/02/2021

Mohammad Junayed Khan, DPM

Anna Stoupine, DPM

Kamal Farha, DPM

Ji Hee Kim, DPM

Poovasit Klinoubol, DPM

The modified total contact cast was designed to accommodate frontal plane biomechanical deformities while providing padding to decrease friction over bony prominences. This technique was successfully used to help heal foot ulcers in a patient...

The modified total contact cast...

03/02/2021

Wound Management & Prevention

Foot Ulceration in the Immosuppressed Population: Surgeon Beware!

Background: Over the past 3 decades, advances in transplant surgery has allowed life-saving renewal of solid organ function. Many of these patients are predisposed to the development of l...

07/31/2019