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THEE Saint Vincent Hospital Another satisfied customer. Thank you, Steven Quan for the assist and Weldon Murry, Elizabeth Ansert, Samuel Gorelik, and the rest of the surgical residents and staff for always making our cases and patients lives easier.

Introduction: As the majority of diabetic foot ulcerations (DFUs) occur on the plantar foot, excessive pressure is a major contributing factor to delayed healing. The gold standard for offloading is the total contact cast (TCC);...

We are great at putting things on DFUs. Why are we so bad at taking the most critical thing off? Diabetic foot ulceration (DFU) is currently the leading cause of diabetes-related hospitalization and non-traumatic lower extremity amputation.

There is growing evidence on an interconnection between the venous and lymphatic systems in venous leg ulceration, and the possible effects of prolonged oedema and lymphatic impairment in delayed wound healing.

Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) can occur when incomplete valve closure induces an increase in venous hypertension and blood pooling. This increase in pressure stretches the vein walls, allowing proteins in the blood to leach into subcutaneous tissues,...

Since the development and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in 1995, it has been used in a wide range of wound types.1 Clinical applications have increased and undergone extensive study...

The Zebras: An Overview of Atypical Wounds August 2021, Submitted for PublicationTotal Contact Cast Use in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Case Series and Systematic Review Nov 2018, WOUNDS