Sentences with phrase «of diabetic foot ulcers»

Negotiated a 3 year contract with current market leader to manufacture their total contact cast kits used in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers

Abadir estimates the total number of diabetic foot ulcers to be more than 20 million per year, with an estimated total cost of $ 25 billion annually in the U.S. alone.

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«While more work is required to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms through which B cells exert their beneficial function in wound healing, we are in the process of obtaining the required regulatory approvals to conduct a first clinical study in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.

Further, foot blisters and other diabetic ulcers or sores account for the vast majority of foot and leg amputations in the United States today.

BETHESDA, Md. (Nov. 15, 2012)-- Chronic wounds such as foot ulcers are a common problem for diabetics and are the cause of more than 80 percent of the lower leg amputations in these patients.

Having staph aureus in your nose — which is the case for about 30 percent of people — is not necessarily a problem in and of itself, but is a risk factor for getting other infections such as surgical site infections, boils, catheter site infections in people on dialysis and diabetic foot ulcers.

In people with diabetes, a trifecta of trouble can set the stage for amputations: Numbness in the feet due to diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage) can make people less aware of injuries and foot ulcers.

For example, people with diabetes are at risk for a number of adverse health consequences, such as blindness, kidney failure, diabetic foot ulcers, or the amputation of a limb due to negligent treatment.

Provided direct patient care to general surgery clients with appendectomy, Hernia repair, Closure of duodenal perforation, Lower segment cesarean section, Hysterectomy (abdominal, vaginal), diabetic ulcer foot, ovarian cancer, orthopedic surgeries.