Case Report Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/casereports.2.007
Role of Topical Insulin in Venous Ulcer Management
Neljo Thomas1, Ravi Kumar Chittoria1,*, Saurabh Gupta1, Chirra Likhitha Reddy1, Padmalakshmi Bharathi Mohan1, Shijina K1, Imran Pathan1, Nishad K1
- 1Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry,India
Corresponding Author
Ravi Kumar Chittoria, drchittoria@yahoo.com
Received Date: April 29, 2020
Accepted Date: June 02, 2020
Thomas N, Chittoria RK, Gupta S, Reddy CL, Mohan PB, Shijina K, et al. Role of Topical Insulin in Venous Ulcer Management. Arch Med Case Rep. 2020; 2(1): 20-22.
Copyright: © 2020 Thomas N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Venous ulcers are notorious for non-healing and plastic surgeons are faced with difficulty in wound management. In chronic wounds there will be deficiency of growth factors. Insulin therapy is a method to induce wound healing by stimulation of growth factors. In this study we have used topical insulin for wound bed preparation of patient’s venous ulcer.
Keywords
Insulin therapy; Venous ulcer
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