Diabetes mellitus is a disease of complications and Diabetic Foot Syndrome is an important problem confronting society and health professionals. In USA one in four diabetics sustains foot ulcer and 40% of them lose their feet [1]. It accounts for 70% of non-traumatic amputations. In Joslin Diabetes Clinic, 25% admissions are due to foot ulcers. In Indian scene, the data is limited. In the study...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility, technical effectiveness and limb salvage potential of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), particularly infrapopliteal, in diabetic subjects with ischaemic foot ulcer. DESIGN Intervention study with PTA in consecutive series. SETTING Six Diabetology Foot Centres and one Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory in Italy. SUBJECTS Two hundred ...

Diabetic foot is a serious complication of diabetes which aggravates the patient's condition whilst also having significant socioeconomic impact. The aim of the present review is to summarize the causes and pathogenetic mechanisms leading to diabetic foot, and to focus on the management of this important health issue. Increasing physicians' awareness and hence their ability to identify the "foo...

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.

ଝ Infección necrotizante en el pie diabético: una urgencia que amenaza la pérdida de la extremidad The adequate management of diabetic foot, both uncomplicated or at risk because of complications such as ulcer, infection, or gangrene, 1 is a professional challenge inherited from the past century which continues to be a pending subject. 2,3 Relatively frequently, infections concomitant with diab...

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...

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...

This study was carried out in diabetic patients with foot ulcer, to determine the bacterial profile of infected ulcer, antibiotic resistance of the isolates and to find out the potential risk factors for infection with multidrug resistance. Gram-negative bacilli were screened for extended spectrum β lactamase (ESBL) production and Staphylococcus aureus were screened for methicillin resistance. ...