Treating hard‐to‐heal skin and nail onychomycosis of diabetic foot with plasma therapy
Terabe Y, Kaneko N, Ando H. Treating hard-to-heal skin and nail onychomycosis of diabetic foot with plasma therapy. Dermatol Ther. 2021 Nov;34(6):e15127. doi: 10.1111/dth.15127. Epub 2021 Sep 15. PMID: 34505330; PMCID: PMC9285594.
Plasma has an effective in the treatment of Trichophyton rubrum on toe nail onychomycosis in vivo. plasma care® is compact size and individually packaged sterile attachment to prevent cross‐contamination.
Case Report of one patient, a 80 years old patient with diabetes and amputation of right foot below knee and left 4th toe 3 years ago. The Patients had Onychomycosis on the left foot and nail (trichophyton rubrum) and previous topical and oral treatment was unsuccessful. The foot was treated with CAP 1x per day for 10 min. This resulted in an improvement after one week (including negative cultures testing for fungi). The treatment was completed after 3 weeks of plasma therapy without any side effects.
