CASE REPORT article
Front. Med.
Sec. Translational Medicine
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1568144
This article is part of the Research Topic25 Years of 21st Century MedicineView all 3 articles
Diabetic foot ulcer healing with polylactic acid membrane assessed by thermographic imaging: a case report
Provisionally accepted
Víctor Manuel Loza-González1Mario Aurelio Martínez-Jiménez2Ana Lorena Novoa-Moreno2
Jose Luis Ramirez-GarciaLuna3,4
Eleazar Samuel Kolosovas-Machuca5*Alejandra Ortiz-Dosal6- 1Doctorado institucional en Ingeniería y Ciencia de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- 2Burn Unit, Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- 3Division of Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, QC, Canada., Quebec, Canada
- 4Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- 5Unidad de Coordinación para la Innovación y la Aplicación de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- 6Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP), San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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Diabetic foot ulcers reduce patients' quality of life and increase treatment costs, evaluating this condition is promising. We report the clinical progression of an elderly patient who developed a diabetic foot ulcer following minor trauma. She was treated for over two months until her condition progressed to Grade 4 on the Wagner Classification of Diabetic Foot. A Serial infrared thermography was performed. The treatment plan included antibiotics and a polylactic acid membrane until complete ulcer remission. Thermographic imaging showed a quantitative reduction of the temperature differences between the affected and contralateral foot from an initial ΔT: -4.6°C ±2.4, progressing to ΔT: -1.7°C ±1.6 at twelve weeks, and a temperature reduction from the proximal third tibial area with ΔT: -1.7°C ±0.6, with a change to ΔT 0.8 °C ±0.4 at twelve weeks near the metatarsal bone region. This article underscores the use of infrared thermography to give physicians feedback on ulcer healing progression phases and treatment effectiveness.
Keywords: infrared thermography, Diabetic Foot, polylactic acid membrane, ulcer healing Fuente: (Predeterminada) Calibri Dio formato: Inglés (Estados Unidos) Dio formato: Fuente: (Predeterminada) Calibri, Diabetes Mellitus
Received: 28 Jan 2025; Accepted: 12 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Loza-González, Martínez-Jiménez, Novoa-Moreno, Ramirez-GarciaLuna, Kolosovas-Machuca and Ortiz-Dosal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Eleazar Samuel Kolosovas-Machuca, Unidad de Coordinación para la Innovación y la Aplicación de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, 78210, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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