Royal Wounds: Queen Victoria’s Case and the Calf Pump
This episode uses Queen Victoria as a clinical mirror to explain how immobility leads to venous hypertension, edema, skin breakdown, and chronic venous leg ulcers. It covers the classic triad—venous h...
4 Tammi 14min
Royal Wounds: King George III, Stress Biology, and Diabetic Foot Healing
This episode examines King George III's documented episodes of severe mental illness and modern re-evaluation (bipolar disorder vs porphyria), then connects the biology of stress—HPA axis, cortisol, a...
4 Tammi 20min
Royal Wounds: How Louis XIV's Anal Fistula Changed Surgery
This episode explores King Louis XIV's chronic infections, his catastrophic anal abscess and fistula, and the brutal pre-anesthesia surgery that ultimately saved him and advanced surgical practice acr...
30 Joulu 202518min
Royal Wounds Episode 2: Napoleon, Boots and the Truth About Pressure Ulcers
Dr. G explores how unrelieved pressure — not just diabetes or infection — can destroy tissue, using Napoleon Bonaparte’s chronic foot pain, stiff military boots, and relentless marching as a historica...
30 Joulu 202516min
Klebsiella in the Wound: The Capsule Cancer Threat to Diabetic Feet
This episode of Diabetic Foot Files focuses on Klebsiella pneumoniae as an emerging and dangerous pathogen in diabetic foot ulcers, highlighting its capsule, biofilm formation, and rising antimicrobia...
22 Joulu 202528min
Royal Wounds Series : Was King Henry VIII Diabetic?
In this episode of Diabetic Foot Files Dr. G opens the mini-series "Royal Wounds" by asking whether King Henry VIII’s notorious, years-long lower-leg wounds were due to diabetes, venous disease, or a ...
21 Joulu 202523min
Triple Clear HF with Dr. Andronica Handie, DPM, MS - Nanotech Nails: A New Front in Diabetic Foot Care
Dr. G interviews Dr. Andronica Handie, DPM, MS about combining his background in nuclear medicine and biopharmaceutical sciences with podiatric innovation to tackle onychomycosis in diabetic patients....
18 Joulu 202524min
The Silent Finisher: Morganella in Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Dr. G breaks down Morganella morganii — a gram-negative, urease-producing opportunist that appears in late-stage diabetic foot ulcers when tissue is necrotic, hypoxic, and antibiotic-weakened. The epi...
16 Joulu 202511min
