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    <title>Diabetic Foot &amp; Wound Management</title>
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      <title>Diperoxochloric Acid for Neuropathic Diabetic Foot Ulcers</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Efficacy and Safety of Topical Solution of Diperoxochloric Acid for Neuropathic Diabetic Foot Ulcer: Results from a Phase 3, Multicentre, Randomized, Active-controlled, Parallel-group Study</b><br />
Arun Bal et al<br />
<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35275009/" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2022 Mar 11</a><br />



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      <title>Foam and Hydrogel dressing for diabetic foot ulcers</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Hydrogel dressings for healing diabetic foot ulcers.</b><br />
Dumville JC, O&#039;Meara S, Deshpande S, Speak K.<br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21901730?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Sep 7;9:CD009101.<br />
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Foot ulcers in people with diabetes are a prevalent and serious global health issue. Dressings form a key part of ulcer treatment, with...</div><div class="quoteExpand">Click to expand...</div></blockquote>
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      <title>Predictors of treatment failure for diabetic foot complications</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Clinical predictors of treatment failure for diabetic foot infections: data from a prospective trial.</b><br />
Lipsky BA, Sheehan P, Armstrong DG, Tice AD, Polis AB, Abramson MA.<br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?tmpl=NoSidebarfile&amp;db=PubMed&amp;cmd=Retrieve&amp;list_uids=17425547&amp;dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Int Wound J. 2007 Mar;4(1):30-8.</a><br />



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      <title>Chinese medicine and diabetic foot ulcers</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Influence of an anti-diabetic foot ulcer formula and its component herbs on tissue and systemic glucose homeostasis.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?tmpl=NoSidebarfile&amp;db=PubMed&amp;cmd=Retrieve&amp;list_uids=16891069&amp;dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">J Ethnopharmacol. 2006 Jun 27;</a><br />



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      <title>Tibial cortex transverse transport in patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Effect of tibial cortex transverse transport in patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers: A prospective multicenter cohort study</b><br />
YanChen et al<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline">Journal of Orthopaedic Translation; Volume 36, September 2022, Pages 194-204</span><br />



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Management of recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) remains difficult. Distraction osteogenesis mediates new bone formation and...</div><div class="quoteExpand">Click to expand...</div></blockquote>
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      <title>Artificial Intelligence in Diabetic Foot Medicine</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>The Advent of Artificial Intelligence in Diabetic Foot Medicine: A New Horizon, a New Order, or a False Dawn?</b><br />
Theodore Howard et al<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34488463/" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2021 Sep 7</a></span><br />



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      <title>Diabetic foot self care</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://podiatryarena.com/index.php?threads/diabetic-foot-self-care.2451/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Personal and treatment factors associated with foot self-care among veterans with diabetes.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?tmpl=NoSidebarfile&amp;db=PubMed&amp;cmd=Retrieve&amp;list_uids=16847789&amp;dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">J Rehabil Res Dev. 2006 Mar-Apr;43(2):227-38</a><br />



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      <title>Polymer-based wound dressings for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcer</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Recent advances in polymer-based wound dressings for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcer: an overview of state-of-the-art.</b><br />
Hussain Z et al<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28676002?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Curr Drug Targets. 2017 Jul 4. doi: 10.2174/1389450118666170704132523</a></span><br />



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      <title>'Social deprivation' and risk for diabetic foot complications</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Impact of health-care accessibility and social deprivation on diabetes related foot disease</b><br />
G. P. Leese, Z. Feng, R. M. Leese, C. Dibben, A. Emslie-Smith<br />
<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dme.12108/abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Diabetic Medicine (in press)</a><br />



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      <title>Probe-to-Bone Test for Diagnosing Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Reliable or relic? </b> <br />
Lawrence A. Lavery, David G. Armstrong, Edgar J.G. Peters and Benjamin A. Lipsky<br />
<a href="http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/2/270" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Diabetes Care 30:270-274, 2007</a><br />



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      <title>Biomarkers of Healing in Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcers</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://podiatryarena.com/index.php?threads/biomarkers-of-healing-in-chronic-diabetic-foot-ulcers.108795/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>‘Ome is where the Wound is: Biomarkers of Healing in Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcers</b><br />
Marc Glucksman et al<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline">April 2017; The FASEB Journal; vol. 31 no. 1 Supplement 780.14</span><br />



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      <title>Stem cells for diabetic foot ulcers</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>A series of systematic reviews to inform a decision analysis for sampling and treating infected diabetic foot ulcers.</b><br />
Health Technol Assess. 2006 Apr;10(12):1-238<br />



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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>The effectiveness of footwear and offloading interventions to prevent and heal foot ulcers and reduce plantar pressure in diabetes: a systematic review.</b><br />
Bus SA, Valk GD, van Deursen RW, Armstrong DG, Caravaggi C, Hlaváček P, Bakker K, Cavanagh PR.<br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442178?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2008 Apr 29;24(S1):S162-S180 [Epub ahead of...</a><br />
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      <title>Empowering podiatrists to perform pulse checks for opportunistic atrial fibrillation</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Empowering podiatrists to perform pulse checks for opportunistic atrial fibrillation detection during annual diabetes foot checks</b> <br />
Linda Hicks et al <br />
<a href="https://openheart.bmj.com/content/openhrt/6/1/e000795.full.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Open Heart 2019;6:e000795</a><br />



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      <title>Osteomyelitis in the diabetic foot</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>The diagnosis of osteomyelitis of the foot in diabetes: microbiological examination vs. magnetic resonance imaging and labelled leucocyte scanning.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01887.x" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Diabet Med. 2006 Jun;23(6):649-53</a><br />



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      <title>Low Level Light Therapy and Diabetic Foot Ulcer</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Morona JK, Buckley ES, Jones S, Reddin EA, Merlin TL.<br />
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<a href="http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/14" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Diabetes Care 2007;30 14-20</a><br />
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<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42480715/" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2026 Jul 21:113453.</span></a><br />



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Su Li et al<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35962366/" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">BMC Surg. 2022 Aug 12;22(1):314</a></span><br />



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Margolis DJ, Hofstad O, Feldman HI.<br />
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Australian Diabetes Foot Network: Practical guideline on the provision of footwear for people with diabetes</b><br />
Shan M Bergin, Vanessa L Nube, Jan B Alford, Bernard P Allard, Joel M Gurr, Emma L Holland, Mark W Horsley, Maarten C Kamp, Peter A Lazzarini, Ashim K Sinha, Jason T Warnock and Paul R Wraight	<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28126155?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Can J Diabetes. 2017 Feb;41(1):97-101. doi: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2016.08.217.</a></span><br />



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<a href="https://journals.iium.edu.my/ijahs/index.php/IJAHS/article/view/333" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES; 2019</a><br />



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<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15347346211036530" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds August 2, 2021 </a></span><br />



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<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29430981?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2018 Feb 1:1534734618755582. doi: 10.1177/1534734618755582.</a></span><br />



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Acosta JB, Garcia Del Barco D, Cibrian Vera D, Savigne W, Lopez-Saura P, Guillen Nieto G, Schultz GS.<br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19006574?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Int Wound J. 2008 Oct;5(4):530-9</a>.<br />



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<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28012281?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Rev Diabet Stud. 2016 Summer-Fall;13(2-3):158-186</a></span><br />



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Ghanassia E, Villon L, Thuan Dit Dieudonné JF, Boegner C, Avignon A, Sultan A.<br />
<a href="http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dc07-2145v1" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Diabetes Care. 2008 Apr 4 [Epub ahead of print]</a>


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      <title>Costs of diabetic foot complications</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>The cost of diabetic foot conditions.</b><br />
Siriwardana HD, Weerasekera D.<br />
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Comparison of the efficacy of 12 interventions in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers: a network meta-analysis.</b><br />
Hu X, Meng H, Liang J, An H, Zhou J, Gao Y, You C, Zhang Z, Gong X, Liu Y. 2025.<br />
<a href="https://peerj.com/articles/19809/" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow"><span style="text-decoration: underline">PeerJ 13:e19809 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19809</span></a><br />



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Shashikala C.K. et al<br />
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Plantar Acceleration Time: A Novel technique to Evaluate Arterial Flow to the Foot.</b><br />
Sommerset J et al<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31075481?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Ann Vasc Surg. 2019 May 7.</a></span><br />



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      <title>TcPO2 cut off for diabetic foot ulcer healing</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Transcutaneous oxygen pressure measurement in diabetic foot ulcers: mean values and cut-point for wound healing.</b><br />
Yang C, Weng H, Chen L, Yang H, Luo G, Mai L, Jin G, Yan L.<br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24202221?dopt=Abstract" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2013 Nov-Dec;40(6):585-9. </a>


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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The evidence documenting the role of nutrition in improving wound healing and neuropathy symptoms hasn’t been widely publicized, particularly among lower extremity healthcare practitioners. But getting that information to your diabetic patients could help save their feet. <a href="http://www.lowerextremityreview.com/article/better-nutrition-boosts-diabetic-foot-outcomes" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">http://www.lowerextremityreview.com/article/better-nutrition-boosts-diabetic-foot-outcomes</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Recombinant human epidermal growth factor (EGF) to enhance healing for diabetic foot ulcers.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.annalsplasticsurgery.com/pt/re/annps/abstract.00000637-200604000-00012.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink"rel="nofollow">Ann Plast Surg. 2006 Apr;56(4):394-8</a><br />



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