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- Title
Chronology and determinants of tissue repair in diabetic lower-extremity ulcers.
- Authors
Pecoraro, Roger E.; Ahroni, Jessie H.; Boyko, Edward J.; Stensel, Victoria L.; Pecoraro, R E; Ahroni, J H; Boyko, E J; Stensel, V L
- Abstract
The natural history of tissue repair and the critical determinants of faulty healing of diabetic ulcers remain obscure despite recent advances in our knowledge of the cellular physiology of normal cutaneous healing. To characterize the chronology and identify important factors affecting healing, we applied an objective method to quantify the rate of wound healing of full-thickness lower-extremity ulcers in 46 diabetic outpatients who received local wound care under a standardized clinical protocol. The initial ulcer healing rate, eventual status of tissue repair, and definitive clinical outcome were not significantly associated with age; diabetes type, duration, or treatment; level or change in glycosylated hemoglobin; current smoking; presence of sensory neuropathy; ulcer location or class; initial infection; or frequency of recurrent infections. However, direct measures of local cutaneous perfusion, estimated by periwound measurements of transcutaneous O2 tension (TcPo2) and transcutaneous CO2 tension (TcPco2), were significantly associated with the initial rate of tissue repair (P = 0.003 and 0.005, respectively). The strong prediction of early healing by these parameters of local skin perfusion was independent from the effects of segmental Doppler arterial blood pressure at the dorsalis pedis, although eventual ulcer reepithelialization was significantly related to foot blood pressure and periwound TcPo2 and TcPco2. We conclude that periwound cutaneous perfusion is the critical physiological determinant of diabetic ulcer healing, indicating a 39-fold increased risk of early healing failure when the average periwound TcPo2 is less than 20 mmHg.
- Subjects
DIABETES complications; BLOOD circulation; COMPARATIVE studies; DIABETES; FOOT ulcers; LEG ulcers; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; SKIN; TIME; TRANSCUTANEOUS blood gas monitoring; WOUND healing; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Diabetes, 1991, Vol 40, Issue 10, p1305
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2337/diab.40.10.1305