The lecture by Manish Bharara, PhD, MS provides a survey of routine clinical non invasive vascular testing procedures and recent technological developments.

In this lecture, Dr. Steinberg addresses the role of surgery in relieving pedal pressures and preventing diabetic foot ulcerations. He discusses the concepts and reasoning behind performing prophylactic surgery in this patient population. Emphasis is placed on the importance of proper patient selection and the corresponding risk vs. benefit dilemmas. Several pictorial case studies are presented depicting various foot deformities treated by prophylactic surgical intervention.

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Every podiatrist will sometime in their career have a patient with an ulcer that just won't heal. The reason that the chronic wound exists is discussed in this lecture by Dr. Driver. The lecture discusses the balance between cytokines and growth factors in wound healing. She also talks of the role that matrix metalloproteases play in chronic ulcers, and the wound care products such as Promogram and Regranex that can jump start a chronic wound into a healing wound.