Patient Details
Client:
Shimon
Duration:
2 months
Clinician:
Shimon’s Wound Care Specialist
Product:
ActiGraft®
Condition:
Non-healing cuts
Shimon, an 86-year-old man with diabetes and venous insufficiency, battled with a Venous Leg Ulcer (VLU) in his left leg for seven years.
Shimon has undergone several treatments, including a number of catheterizations in his leg – until he could not undergo a further catheterization – ozone gas treatment, and hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatments, all of which proved unsuccessful in healing his wound. In the past few months, due to the emergency situation caused by COVID-19, Shimon was unable to receive treatment at the clinic, and the wound subsequently grew deeper and larger, spreading to the side of the leg.
Shimon’s family began to lose faith that his condition would ever improve; the numerous treatments and the countless number of doctors met, led his family to believe he was “doomed to live with a chronic wound for the rest of his life, without an option for improvement, just making sure that the situation does not become any worse or deteriorate”.