Figure 1: The Recruitment and selection process. Initially 395 patients were transferred to our service. 44 patients were removed for having two sequential ulcers, resulting in 351 participants. 83 of them were excluded for presenting arterial, renal, cardiac, and orthopedic complications. From the remaining 268 patients 50 discontinued the treatment resulting in the group of 218 patients
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