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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

An Overview of Recent Clinical Trials for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Therapies.

Ovya Ganesan, Dennis P Orgill

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Immunomodulatory Tissue-Engineering Strategies for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Management: A Systematic Review.Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ovya GanesanDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Dennis P OrgillDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8279-7310

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a major complication of diabetes, leading to high mortality, reduced quality of life, neuropathy, ischemia, infection, and amputation risks. The prevalence of these ulcers is only on the rise as more people suffer from type 2 diabetes and obesity. The current wound management involves wound dressings, offloading, debridement, and infection control, but more must be done to keep up with the rising prevalence of DFUs and the strain they put on patients and the healthcare system. To find recent therapeutic advances in DFU treatment, we searched PubMed for novel therapeutics from the past 5 years. We found a diversity of promising interventions, including advanced wound dressings and topicals, physical energy-based therapies, regenerative scaffolds, and growth factor- and cell-based therapies. Recent therapies hold significant promise in healing more DFUs faster and more effectively. Providers should consider employing safe, novel therapeutics when standard dressings are not effective.

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diabetesdiabetic footdiabetic foot ulcertherapytreatmentulcer

Identifiers

PMID39768578
PMCPMC11676782

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