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...
11 Okt 202533min
Tiny Ring, Big Risk: Porokeratosis on the Diabetic Foot
Dr. G explains porokeratosis — a ring-like skin disorder that can masquerade as a callus or wart and cause pain, ulceration, and even malignant change on diabetic feet. The episode covers what poroker...
10 Okt 202520min
Forgotten Feet: Diabetes Behind Bars/The Incarcerated
Dr. G (Woon Picasso) exposes the hidden crisis of diabetic foot disease in prisons: its prevalence, the resource and policy barriers that lead to missed checks and preventable amputations, and the mor...
10 Okt 202513min
Silver Nitrate: The Secret Weapon Against Hypergranulation
Dr. G explains how silver nitrate works as a quick, low-cost chemical cautery for treating hypergranulation ("proud flesh") in diabetic and other chronic wounds, outlining the mechanism, application s...
8 Okt 202512min
How the 2025 Nobel Prize on T‑Regs Could Transform Diabetic Foot Care
Dr. Gabrielle Hutchison Donaldson dives into the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about regulatory T cells (T‑regs), explaining why these immune brakes matter and how they co...
7 Okt 202513min
Shiny Red Leg? Understanding Erysipelas in Diabetes
Dr. G explains erysipelas — the classic shiny, well-demarcated red leg — covering its causes (mainly streptococcal), distinguishing it from cellulitis and other mimics, initial investigations, and out...
2 Okt 202524min
To Kling or To Kerlex, that is the question- Mastering Gauze Rolls in Diabetic Foot Ulcer Care
Dr. G explains the key differences between Kling (conforming) and Kerlex (bulky padding), when to use each, and how wrapping technique and tension can affect perfusion and healing in diabetic feet. In...
1 Okt 202516min
Sparks of Healing: How Piezoelectricity Could Transform Diabetic Foot Care
This episode explains the piezoelectric effect—how mechanical stress creates tiny electrical signals—and how those signals guide cell migration, angiogenesis, collagen deposition, and epithelializatio...
30 Sep 202511min
