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Carmelo Licciardello

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New Perspective to Improve Care of Patients with Infected Diabetic Foot Ulcer: Early Economic Impact of the Use of Photodynamic Therapy with RLP068 (…

2021

Valentina Lorenzoni,1 Agatina Chiavetta,2 Vincenzo Curci,3 Giuseppe Della Pepa,4 Carmelo Licciardello,5 Felicia Pantò,6 Alessia Scatena,7 Giuseppe Turchetti1 1Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy; 2A.O. Cannizzaro, Catania, Italy; 3Centro per La Cura del Piede Diabetico, Ospedale Costantino Cantù di Abbiategrasso, Milan, Italy; 4Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University, Naples, Italy; 5Unit of Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases, Centro Catanese di Medicina e Chirurgia, Catania, Italy; 6Section of Endocrinology, Biomedical Department of Internal and Specialist Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy;…

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Efficacy and safety of photodynamic therapy with RLP068 for diabetic foot ulcers: a review of the literature and clinical experience

2020

This article is the second part of a literature review concerning diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and the use of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (PDT). PDT involves the topical application of a photosensitiser into the tissue, followed by illumination that induces the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). PDT provides bacterial inactivation and promotes wound healing, and it can be used to manage the infection and microbial colonisation of DFUs. It has pivotal advantages in comparison with chemotherapeutics, such as no potential to induce resistance, and a wide spectrum of activity. Tetracationic Zn(II) phthalocyanine derivatives have been developed for PDT. Among these, we would like …

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