Innovative Israeli ‘copper’ dressing helps cure diabetic wounds
Herzliya-based MedCu’s product have already been approved by the US FDA.
Feet (illustrative) (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
An innovative Israeli-made wound dressing has been found to drastically stimulate the healing of diabetic wounds, a new study by physicians at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa has found.
Copper
Oxide Impregnated Wound Dressings, developed by Herzliya-based MedCu
Technologies, have already received clearance by the major international
regulatory bodies – including the United States’ FDA – for use in acute
and chronic wounds.
“What
is special about our dressing is that it contains particles of copper
oxide,” said Dr. Gadi Borkow, MedCu’s co-founder and chief medical
officer, who co-authored the study with the Rambam researchers.
Borkow noted that the advantage of copper is two-fold.
“Copper
has a very powerful antimicrobial efficacy, it kills a wide-spectrum of
pathogens, bacteria, fungi and viruses and therefore it helps clear the
wound and protect it from infections,” he said.
COPPER ORE (credit: University of Maryland)
“In
addition, many do not know that copper is an essential element in human
physiology, including in healing wounds,” he remarked.
Foot
wounds or ulcers are very common among individuals who suffer from
diabetes: About 15% of such patients experience them. They are commonly
located at the bottom of the foot and have a high chance of infection or
hospitalization. A high level of glucose in the blood can interfere in
the healing.
Some
13 diabetic patients took part in the study. By the end of the
treatment, the size of their wounds showed an average reduction of 65%.
Improvement was registered in all wounds regardless of their initial
size or other interfering factors, other than weight-bearing pressure.
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The findings were published in the academic journal Medicina.
“The
most frequent reason chronic wounds do not heal is that there is no
production of new blood capillaries,” Borkow said. “Without new blood
reaching the wound, there is a problem of lack of oxygen, no activation
of the immune system, no removal of toxic waste.”
“Copper
is essential for the production of new capillaries,” he added. “With
our wound dressing, we are stimulating the process.”
Other
forms of treatment currently available for diabetic wounds are often
burdensome and painful, and sometimes require hospitalization.
MedCu wound dressings are already available and in use.
For
the future Borkow said that they hope to launch a larger study, also
with the goal of comparing the results between different forms of
treatments.
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“This
past one was a small clinical trial, but our goal is to show the
efficacy of our dressings in a larger, randomized one,” he said.
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