Clinical Trial of low energy Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in patients with chronic ulsers
- Conditions
- chronic wound
- Registration Number
- JPRN-jRCT1092220079
- Lead Sponsor
- Storz Medical
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 33
All consecutive patients ranging between 18 and 85 y, presenting a history of chronic ulcers from more than three weeks that were unresponsive to conservative or advanced dressing treatments or mechanical debridement, were counseled about the use of ESWT as alternative treatment for their wounds.
Exclusion criteria were arrhythmias, presence of pacemaker, coagulopathies, tumors, pregnancy, presence of growth cartilage, local acute inflammation, exposed bone and wound size area _1 cm2 or more than 10 _ 20 cm.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcomes was evaluated as % wound closure per week.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method