Expanding Horizons: Rethinking Aesthetics through the Prism of the Human Body and Cultural Psychology
VOLUME 21, 2024
The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review
VOLUME 6, 2023
Zhuang Xiong Ph. D
College of Philosophy, Guizhou University, Guizhou, China, 550025
College of Philosophy, Guizhou University, Guizhou, China, 550025
Yingmin Fang
Professor, College of Philosophy, Guizhou University, Guizhou, China, 550025
Professor, College of Philosophy, Guizhou University, Guizhou, China, 550025
Abstract
A wide variety of biological as well as phenomenological conceptions of artwork have emerged as a result of growing recognition of the vital and intricate position that the body plays in creating and appreciating art. These contemporary concepts of artwork are linked to aesthetics' pre-Kantian roots as the study of perspective on circumstances (aesthesis) and emotion by their common focus on the body's activity. This paper investigates the collaborative concern of numerous thinkers, in artwork as an unconscious, non-linguistic manner of understanding, representing, and experiencing the world. It accomplishes this by identifying contemporary perspectives. This study states that although a few hypotheses based on biology have legitimately highlighted the possible significance of artwork in human evolution, its simplified patterns must be rectified and augmented by an experiential and 'symbolic' method that places art within a network of affective experiences with the world controlled by culture within a larger context that gives it purpose.
Keywords :
Aesthetics, Artwork, Human Body, Contemporary Concepts, Emotions, Biology, Culture.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Abstract
Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords :
Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty