Your specialty Our products Why Biocomposites? Education Library News & Events Contact us Home Library Transform osteomyelitis in diabetic foot International Transform osteomyelitis in diabetic foot Courtesy of Mr Robert Morley, Specialist Registrar in Podiatric Surgery, Derbyshire, UK Products: STIMULAN® Clinical particulars 67-year-old male patient with Type 2 diabetes presented with a 1 year history of a right foot ulcer and symptoms of infection with osteomyelitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Previous treatment involved 9 months I.V. antibiotics and regular re-dressing with no improvement. Most oral antibiotics were contraindicated due to a history of Clostridium difficile. Treatment After surgical debridement and thorough irrigation, STIMULAN mixed with antibiotic was used to fill the resulting dead space and treat the bacterial infection. A 3 day perioperative course of I.V. antibiotic therapy was administered based on a bone biopsy with no other antibiotics used post-operatively. Outcome 5 weeks post-surgery the surgical wound and ulcer had healed and erythema and swelling had fully reduced. ESR and CRP were within normal limits and x-rays showed no deterioration. At 3 months the patient was mobilising normally, free from infection and STIMULAN had fully absorbed. Implantation of STIMULAN negated the need to perform a full forefoot amputation. Note: See STIMULAN page for regulatory statements. MA0159R2 Library Listed below are 4 of the most relevant articles for this piece but there is much more to explore on our Library page. Explore Library STIMULAN®, genex® Comparative osteoconductivity of bone void fillers with antibiotics in a critical size bone defect model Rema A. Oliver, Vedran Lovric, Chris Christou, William R. Walsh. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine (2020) 31:80. View paper > STIMULAN® Intramedullary reaming and irrigation and antibiotic-loaded calcium sulfate implantation for the treatment of infection after intramedullary nailing: a retrospective study of 19 cases Hong-An Zhang, Chun-Hao Zhou, Xiang-Qing Meng, Jia Fang & Cheng-He Qin. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders volume 21, Article number: 710 (2020). View paper > STIMULAN® Transform Infected Femur View case study > STIMULAN® A novel treatment approach to infected nonunion of long bones without systemic antibiotics Masrouha, K.Z., M.E. Raad, and S.S. Saghieh. Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr, 2018. View paper > Your specialty Musculoskeletal infection Trauma Spine Sports injuries Our products STIMULAN® genex® Biosteon® Allogran-R® Bilok® Why Biocomposites? News & Events Contact us Education Biofilm Infected fractures Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) Wound closure Our company COVID19 risk assessment Legal notices Sitemap Privacy statement Code of conduct Modern slavery statement Section 172 statement LinkedIn Twitter ©2021, Biocomposites. All rights reserved.