Diabetes Mellitus, Wounds
Conditions
Keywords
wound healing, diabetes mellitus
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether topic insulin is effective to accelerates wound healing in diabetes patients
Detailed description
Wound healing is impaired in diabetes mellitus, but the mechanisms involved are not well established. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a topic insulin cream on wound healing in diabetic patients. age eligible for study:18 years old-older gender eligible for study:both accepts healthy volunteers:no have a proband with T1DM or T2DM. A proband is an individual with more than one year of diagnosis. have proband with a wound that is difficult to be healed for at least three months. patients with serum creatinine \<1.5mg/dl Does not satisfy the above inclusion criteria infection diagnosed wound patients with cellulitis, venous stasis, inadequate perfusion, osteomyelitis and patient's inability to attend clinics for follow up
Interventions
Intervention: Placebo cream versus insulin cream. Patients with wounds for more than 3 months without infection. These patients were treated with placebo cream or insulin cream. The placebo or insulin were used for 8 weeks.
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
age eligible for study:18 years old-older gender eligible for study:both accepts healthy volunteers:no have a proband with T1DM or T2DM. A proband is an individual with more than one year of diagnosis. have proband with a wound that is difficult to be healed for at least three months. patients with serum creatinine \<1.5mg/dl
Exclusion criteria
Does not satisfy the above inclusion criteria infection diagnosed wound patients with cellulitis, venous stasis, inadequate perfusion, osteomyelitis and patient's inability to attend clinics for follow up
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| % of Wound healing closing measured each week | 7 days |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Complete wound healing | 8 weeks |