INTRODUCTION Accurate identification of pathogens, rather than colonising bacteria, is a prerequisite for targeted antibiotic therapy to ensure optimal patient outcome in wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers. Wound swabs are the easiest and most commonly used sampling technique but most published guidelines recommend instead removal of a tissue sample from the wound bed, which is a more complex...

BACKGROUND The aim of conventional medical therapy in diabetic foot infections is to control infection, thereby reducing amputation rates, infectious morbidity, and death. Any delay incurred during a trial of home remedies could allow an infection to progress unchecked, increasing the risk of these adverse outcomes. This study sought to determine the effects of delayed operative interventions a...

background diabetic foot ulcer is a worldwide health care concern affecting tens of thousands of patients. if these ulcers left untreated, they can create severe complications. objectives this study was designed to examine the effect of infrared radiation on the healing of diabetic foot ulcer. patients and methods this clinical trial was performed on 50 patients referred to dr. ganjavian hospit...

introduction diabetic foot is a clinical disorder, which is commonly seen in patients with diabetes mellitus. it is also the major cause of below knee amputation in the world. there are many underlying causes such as neuropathic, ischemic, and infectious causes for diabetic foot. local or systemic complications may develop after snake bite. case presentation we reported a very rare case, involv...

AIM The aim of the study is to compare the standard care for progressive necrotizing infection in diabetic foot with a treatment protocol based on the association between autologous fibroblast grafts and vacuum-assisted closure therapy (V.A.C.). MATERIAL OF STUDY A retrospective matched Case-Control study was carried out on 20 patients with diabetic foot infection, 10 treated with the standar...

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Clinically, 3 distinct stages of diabetic foot infection may be recognized: localized infection, spreading infection and severe infection. Each of these presentations may be complicated by osteomyelitis. Infection can be caused by Gram-positive aerobic, and Gram-negative aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, singly or in combination. The underlying principles are to diagnose infection, culture the ba...

Purpose: Clinicians often routinely order measurements of serum inflammatory and other laboratory markers to assess the response treatment diabetic foot infections (DFI). Scientific evidence supporting this widespread practice is very limited unclear. We sought determine if levels (or their dynamic change) these predict important future outcomes, including recurrence infection development ische...

BACKGROUND Although several antibiotics have been studied for the treatment of foot infections, their effectiveness has been considered to be similar. The scope of this analysis was the identification of factors that are associated with treatment failure based on evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). METHODS Two reviewers independently extracted data from published RCTs comparing...