Background: Patients with diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) usually have a poor quality of life (QoL) and self-efficacy, which is affected by many risk factors. However, the role psychological resilience in QoL self-efficacy DFU patients has remained unclear.

OBJECTIVE Pressure mitigation is crucial for the healing of plantar diabetic foot ulcers. We therefore discuss characteristics and considerations associated with the use of offloading devices. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A diabetic foot ulcer management survey was sent to foot clinics in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2005. A total of 901 geographically diverse centers responde...

Diabetic foot problems are not very glamorous. Nevertheless, the diabetic foot is the most common complication of diabetes, greater than retinopathy, nephropathy, heart attack and stroke combined. Throughout the world, foot lesions and foot infections are the leading causes of hospitalization and prolonged hospital stays for diabetics. Diabetic foot ulceration is the result of trauma to an inse...

Diabetes is a chronic disease with a worldwide increasing trend. Foot complications, closely related to neuropathy and obstructive peripheral vascular disease, are responsible for more than 1 million of leg amputations every year. Foot infection can dramatically increase the risk of amputation. Although many ulcer classification systems have been proposed to stratify the severity of the infecti...

Introduction: Foot complications are a major cause of hospitalization in patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM), which consumes high number hospital days because multiple surgical procedures and prolonged length stay. Patients DM have up to 25% lifetime risk developing foot ulcer, precedes amputation 85% cases. A mainstay Diabetic Ulcer (DFU) therapy is debridement all necrotic, callus, fibrous t...

This issue of Seminars in Vascular Surgery is devoted to the evaluation and management of lower-limb wounds in the vascular surgery patient. In-depth discussions of common clinical conditions are presented on the topics of venous ulcer, diabetic foot infection, peripheral arterial disease (PAD) with tissue loss, and surgical site infection (SSI). The first article by Scalise et al discusses the...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the virulence potential of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from diabetic foot ulcers and to discriminate noninfected from infected ulcers. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Diabetic patients hospitalized in a diabetic foot department with a foot ulcer were prospectively enrolled if they had been free of antibiotic treatment over the previous ...

Background: Foot ulceration (DFU) is a serious complication of diabetes and new techniques that can predict wound healing may prove very helpful. We tested the ability of Medical Hyperspectral Technology (HT), a novel diagnostic scanning technique which can quantify tissue oxyand deoxyhemoglobin, to predict DFU healing. Methods: Ten T1DM patients with 21 foot ulcer sites, 13 T1DM without ulcers...

BACKGROUND Australia is ranked ninth of 39 countries in the Western Pacific region most affected by diabetes. Patients with diabetes are at high risk of developing foot ulcerations that can develop into non-healing wounds. Recent studies suggest that the lifetime risk of developing a diabetic foot ulcer is as high as 25%. Few studies have reported the prevalence of, risk factors and socioeconom...

In the year 2005, most of the estimated 150 million people worldwide afflicted by diabetes mellitus lived in developing countries.1 Diabetic foot ulcers will complicate the disease in more than 15% of these people during their lifetimes.2,3 In prospective cohort studies conducted among those with diabetes, history of a foot ulcer increased the risk of subsequent amputation by twoto over three-f...