Patients with a non-infected neuroischemic diabetic foot ulcer were more likely to achieve wound closure within 20 weeks when randomly assigned a sucrose octasulfate dressing versus those assigned a standard wound dressing, according to findings published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology . “Delayed wound healing in neuroischemic diabetic foot ulcers has been related to excess matrix metalloprotease concentrations; these proteins destroy components of the extracellular matrix and damage growth factors and their receptors that are essential for healing,” Michael Edmonds, M.D., of the Diabetic Foot Clinic at King’s College Hospital in London, and colleagues wrote.
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Sucrose octasulfate wound dressing may speed healing in diabetic foot ulcers