Evaluation of the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma on healing of clean diabetic foot ulcers: A randomized clinical trial in Tehran, Iran

Critical Care Quality Improvement Research Center at Shahid Modarres Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Clinical Research and Development Center at Shahid Modarres Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Clinical Research and Development Center at Shahid Modarres Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Clinical Research and Development Center at Shahid Modarres Hospital, Department of Radiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: besharat.sara@gmail.com.

Diabetes & metabolic syndrome. 2021;15(2):621-626
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are among challenging hurdles both for the patient and the physician. There is a recent trend toward finding novel and clinically efficient modalities to treat this potentially hazardous complication of diabetes mellitus in a timely manner. Herein, we aim to appraise the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in healing of clean DFUs. METHODS 90 patients with clean DFUs consisting of 56 (62.2%) males and 34 (37.8%) females with mean age (±standard deviation) of 56.52 (±7.14) years were enrolled in this study between June 2017 and December 2018. They were randomly allocated into control group (47 patients who received conventional dressing along with silver sulfadiazine ointment twice daily), and case group (43 patients who received PRP gel twice weekly for 3 weeks). All the patients were followed up for 6 months. RESULTS Our study showed that PRP significantly increased the healing rate of DFUs regardless of the age (p-value: 0.0), gender (p-value: 0.0), or smoking (p-value: 0.0) and blood pressure (p-value: 0.0) status of patients, but it did not have a significant impact on the need for amputation (p-value: 0.11), level of amputation (p-value: 0.16), or the need for further treatments such as graft or angioplasty (p-value: 0.52). CONCLUSION Regardless of the age, gender, or smoking and blood pressure status of patients, PRP can be efficiently used in diabetic patients to accelerate the healing rate of foot ulcers.
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