The management of diabetic foot disease may seem poorly defined by comparison with complications such as nephropathy, hyperlipidaemia and retinopathy, for which clear guidelines exist. A multidisciplinary team, approach, particularly in specific diabetic foot clinics, is very successful in avoiding and treating foot complications, This strategy has been shown to reduce both the incidence of maj...

BACKGROUND Foot screening is an important part of diabetic care as it prevents significant morbidity, loss of function and mortality from diabetic foot complications. However, foot screening is often neglected. AIM This project was aimed at educating health care workers (HCWs) in a primary health care clinic to increase diabetic foot screening practices. SETTING A primary health care clinic...

The Diabetic Foot Ulcer Challenge 2022 focused on the task of diabetic foot ulcer segmentation, based work completed in previous DFU challenges. challenge provided 4000 images full-view together with corresponding delineation regions. This paper provides an overview challenge, a summary methods proposed by participants, results obtained from each technique, and comparison results. best-performi...

BACKGROUND Diabetic foot disease is associated with major morbidity, mortality, costs, and reduction of a person's quality of life. Investigating the epidemiology of diabetic foot disease is the backbone of diabetic foot research and clinical practice, yet the full burden of diabetic foot disease in Australia is unknown. This study aims to describe the protocol for a systematic review of the ep...

Background: Foot ulcers (FU) are a significant complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) and a preceding factor leading to lower extremity amputation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the management of diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) in Babol, north of Iran. Methods: Five hundred twenty cases of diabetic foot ulcer that were hospitalized in two main teaching hospitals of Babol University of Medica...

Were he alive today, would Louis Pasteur still champion culture methods he pioneered over 150 years ago for identifying bacterial pathogens? Or, might he suggest that new molecular techniques may prove a better way forward for quickly detecting the true microbial diversity of wounds? As modern clinicians faced with treating complex patients with diabetic foot infections (DFI), should we still r...

This study aims to describe the healing process of diabetic foot wounds monitored through telemedicine during Coronavirus disease-19 pandemic. The method used in this was a case report 64-year-old patient with history grade IV injuries after amputation thumb on right foot. time needed do as medium for monitoring wound conditions and education is about 30 minutes. results showed that significant...

AIM To examine two modalities of surgical treatment of diabetic foot based on two different approaches, classical and multidisciplinary. METHODS A retrospective-prospective study including 120 consecutive patients with diabetic foot treated in the Department of Surgery, General Hospital Tešanj in the period 1999-2006. Since 2003 a new multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of diabetic fo...

Dear Editor, Singapore has a high prevalence of diabetes, with 12.4% of the adult population living with diabetes in 2013. Up to 1 in 6 diabetic patients develop diabetic foot problems1 and these are estimated to account for 15% to 25% of healthcare costs for treating diabetes.2 At present the costs of treating diabetic foot problems in Singapore are not known. Our study aims to evaluate the co...