Who Owns the Toe? The hidden battle over responsibility, accountability, and limb salvage
Dr. G examines how diabetic toes and ulcers are rarely just wounds but visible warnings of neuropathy, poor circulation, infection, and gaps in care. She asks who is responsible for protecting the foo...
26 Jul 13min
Edge Trenching: Turning a Wound’s Cliff into a Healing Ramp
This episode introduces edge trenching, a novel debridement technique developed by Dr. Igor Melnichuk that targets dysfunctional wound edges (epibolies, hyperkeratosis, rolled or fibrotic margins) to ...
25 Jul 21min
Vascular Insights with Dr. Giulia Baldazzi MD, vascular surgery fellow and PhD candidate from Italy 🇮🇹: Healing begins with circulation
Dr. Giulia Baldazzi, a vascular surgeon, fellow and phd candidate researcher, shares her journey from UCSF to Italy and explores advances in perfusion assessment, revascularization, and limb preservat...
24 Jul 33min
Forgotten Infection Friday- The Great Pretender: Actinomycosis Masquerading as Diabetic Foot Infection
Actinomycosis is a rare, slow-growing filamentous gram-positive bacterial infection that can mimic cancer, tuberculosis, or chronic diabetic foot infections by producing woody fibrosis, interconnected...
24 Jul 22min
Liquid Biopsies: The Future of Diabetic Foot Care
In this episode of Diabetics with Files, Dr. G explains liquid biopsies — blood tests that detect cell-free DNA and other molecular signals — and how they work. We explore how this technology could he...
23 Jul 9min
Exudative tax- When Wounds Become Protein Vampires: The Hidden Drain
This episode explains how chronic wounds—especially heavily exudative and diabetic ulcers—act like metabolic drains, leaking proteins, growth factors, immune cells, electrolytes, and calories and impa...
22 Jul 13min
LIMBWatch Series: Dr. David Alper, DPM-Beyond the Operating Room: The Legislative Fight to Save Limbs
LIMBWatch | Dr. David B. Alper – The Policy Behind Preventing Amputations Why are so many lower extremity amputations still happening when the majority could be prevented? In this powerful episode of ...
20 Jul 40min
LIMBWatch Series: Dr. David Armstrong DPM, MD, PhD - Ending Preventable Amputations:Limb Preservation and Diabetic Foot Remission
In this episode , one of the world’s most influential pioneers in limb preservation, Dr.David Armstrong DPM, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Neurological Surgery and a Global Leader in ...
13 Jul 43min
