The Department of Surgery and college of medicine are conducting a study to understand processes that cause problems in the healing of wounds in individuals with diabetes.
Inclusion Criteria:
1) Adult chronic wound with wound VAC (defined as wound
present > 4 weeks
2) Wounds patients age 25-80 years old, with clinically defined
type II diabetes. Well controlled diabetic with glycated
hemoglobin (HbA1c <8%);
3) Patients with II diabetes (clinically defined) and poor glucose
control (HbA1c >8%)
4) Normoglycemic/controls (patient without diabetes).
For more information, contact Kasturi Ganesh, post doctoral researcher by phone at (614) 247-7840 or by e-mail at kasturi.ganesh@osumc.edu.