3D Printing Dressing in Treatment of Diabetic Ulcer: A Case-Series

Abstract

Diabetic foot syndrome is defined as infection, ulceration, or destruction of deep tissues of the foot (including bones) in a patient with diabetes mellitus.Complex and multifactorial management of diabetic foot ulcer is necessary to reduce costs and ensure faster healing and avoid limb amputation. In this, dressings play a key role in stimulating tissue repair. In the case series we present we have exper-imented with the use of 3D printing resorbable biopolymers gauze in diabetic vascular ulcers.

In both cases the lesions healed with a period of around 3 months with signs of improvement in the bottom of the lesion as early as the fifteenth day.