Adjunctive Phototherapy Treatment of Infected Diabetic Ulcers

Status Withdrawn

Clinical Trial Summary

The key purpose of this study is to determine and understand the safety and effectiveness of blue light phototherapy in the treatment and healing of infected diabetic wounds, as well as determining if this treatment is capable of reducing the bacterial population number within infected wounds. The investigators' lab recently discovered that a specific survival protein called catalase can be destroyed through blue light exposure. Given that a majority of bacteria species contains catalase, it is hypothesized that the destruction of this protein can improve the effectiveness of antimicrobial wound dressings commonly used to treat infected diabetic wounds, therefore further reducing the amount of bacteria within the wound and increasing the rate of healing. By reducing the overall bacterial population within these diabetic infected wounds, the ability for these diabetic wounds to heal will be enhanced, allowing for greater reductions in wound size over the course of the treatment. In this study, 40 subjects will be enrolled and randomly assigning subjects to either a control group or a phototherapy receiving experimental group. While control subjects will receive standard weekly debridement treatment procedures for infected diabetic ulcers, experimental subjects will receive standard weekly debridement treatment alongside 2 sessions of phototherapy every week over the course of 12 weeks. Bacterial swab samples will be taken alongside the excised debrided infect tissue for the purpose of bacterial population analysis. For each patient, the changes in total bacterial population, wound size, and subject satisfaction will be recorded and analyzed to determine the effectiveness of pulsed light phototherapy.

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT04285710
Study type	Interventional
Source	Boston Medical Center
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Status	Withdrawn
Phase	N/A
Start date	June 2021
Completion date	April 2022

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