Understanding diabetic foot

Diabetic Foot Ulcer Microbiome: One Small Step for Molecular Microbiology . . . One Giant Leap for Understanding Diabetic Foot Ulcers?

Foot infections in individuals with diabetes are a major cause of morbidity, constituting the most common reason for both diabetes-related hospitalization and lower extremity amputations (1,2). Optimal treatment of these diabetic foot infections requires recognizing which foot ulcers are infected and prescribing pathogen-appropriate antibiotic therapy. Most experts concur that diagnosing infect...

Diabetic foot

Diabetic Neuropathy and Diabetic Foot

Patients with diabetes may present with an array of foot disorders that include, but are not limited to, neuropathy, ulceration, and osteomyelitis. Ischemia and infection are common clinical concerns as either, or both, may be involved in the pathogenesis of these disorders. Management choices can be difficult to make and diagnostic imaging is often sought to help clarify the clinical picture. ...

Foot Care in Diabetic Patients

  قصور در مراقبت و آموزش پرستاری می تواند مشکلات بسیاری را برای بیماران دیابتیک فراهم کند و موجب آسیب پذیری و تغییر در سلامت ظاهری پاهای آنان شود. با توجه به اینکه نیمی از آمپوتاسیونهای غیرتروماتیک در ایالات متحده را مشکلات بیماران دیابتیک ملیتوس شامل می شود خصوصیات ویژه پاهای این بیماران در این مقاله بازگو می گردد.

Diabetic foot infections.

Diabetic foot infection, defined as soft tissue or bone infection below the malleoli, is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus leading to hospitalization and the most frequent cause of nontraumatic lower extremity amputation. Diabetic foot infections are diagnosed clinically based on the presence of at least two classic findings of inflammation or purulence. Infections are classifie...