Clinical trial NCT03955289: Treatment of Foot and Leg Ulcers Using a Laser
Official title: Treatment of Foot and Leg Ulcers Using a Laser
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Lead sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-05-20
Enrollment: 34
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients of the investigators with foot ulcers.

Brief summary: The investigators plan to do a retrospective chart review on patients who underwent laser treatment for their foot ulcer at the UT Southwestern wound clinic.

Detailed description: The investigators plan to do a retrospective chart review on patients who underwent laser treatment for their foot ulcer at the UT Southwestern wound clinic starting on May 17, 2018 to November 13, 2018. The investigators chose this date because that is the first time laser treatments were performed in the clinic. The investigators will collect the following data points:

* Ulcer etiology
* Ulcer location
* Prior ulcer treatment type and duration, and wound measurements/characteristics
* Wound size 4-6 weeks prior to laser treatment; at treatment time; and then each follow up measurement healed or x weeks
* eGFR
* Albumin
* Last A1c-Presence/absence of DM
* Amputation history
* Vascular status via ABI's
* Identify comorbidities
* Identify associated encounters in the patients such as complications (i.e. infection), related readmissions The investigators will identify this information from patient charts (EPIC EMR).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* patients who underwent laser treatment for their foot ulcer at the UT Southwestern wound clinic starting on May 17, 2018 to November 13, 2018

Exclusion Criteria:

* not meeting inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Improved healing rate to time to healing
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Decreased complications in diabetic foot ulcers, i.e. infection, hospital admission, amputation
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dallas
country: United States
facility: UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: UT Southwestern Medical Center
name: Lawrence Lavery, DPM MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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