The solution to the problem lies in diabetic foot care team: case report
Makaleler > Vaka Takdimi · 2014
Yazarlar: Ilgın Yıldırım Şimşir, Lamia Çimen, Serhat Uysal, Anıl Murat ÖZTÜRK, Meltem TAŞBAKAN, İlgen ERTAM SAĞDUYU, Şevki ÇETİNKALP
Türkiye Klinikleri Endokrinoloji Dergisi, Diğer Kurumların Hakemli Dergileri, Ulusal, 2014, cilt 9, ss 29-32
Özet
<p> Diabetic foot care/treatment requires mechanical, microbiological, vascular and metabolic risk assessment. We would like to share the process of a patient with diabetic foot infection and peripheral arterial disease through a multidisciplinary diabetic foot care team. Debridement was performed to the patient who presented with complaints on a wound in diameter of 20x10 cm on the right leg, Wagner stage 3. Discharge, redness and swelling were decreased with daily medical dressings. On the follow-up of patient was observed with significant improvement in diabetic foot ulcers, existing granulation tissue on their leg sores. However, wound depth was so wide and deep. So an autograft was performed after application of growth factors. The patient was brought into the social life with closing all the wounds<br></p>