Never ignore any bump, blister, or redness on your feet. Not to sound too scary, but complications from foot wounds are a leading cause of hospitalization and amputation among people with diabetes. So always check in with your doctor or medical professional if you have concerns. As many as ...
Objective: to determine the knowledge and practices regarding foot care among diabetic with the aim of identifying and addressing barriers to prevent amputation and other complications. Material and methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted at public diabetic clinic in Nishtar Hospital Multan. ...
However, a foot ulcer can occur quickly, even within a day. People with diabetes often cannot feel foot pain and so fail to recognise the early warning signs. Therefore ulcers often go unnoticed and untreated, and then the risk of amputation is increased. Professor Liudi Jiang, head of the...
A hospital admission may be required if the wound needs to be cleaned and debrided. Antibiotics will need to be administered. If the wound still isn’t healing or if the infection gets worse, amputation of the affected foot can even be necessary. (ADA) With that said, let’s get into ...
Over the past generation, significant advances in care have led to reductions in amputation worldwide. However, it may be argued that the most potent advances in healing have been in organization of care. Technologies are now emerging that may allow further enhancements of organization and integrati...
Interpretation In patients presenting with severe limb ischaemia due to infra-inguinal disease and who are suitable for surgery and angioplasty, a bypass-surgery-first and a balloon-angioplasty-first strategy are associated with broadly similar outcomes in terms of amputation-free survival, and in the...
including reducing systolic blood pressure and exerting anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic effects [4]. Despite these advantages, concerns about the safety of SGLT2is have been raised, encompassing issues such as hypoglycemia, lower limb amputation, acute kidney injury, urinary tract infections (UTIs),...
One of its major complications is diabetic foot, leading to plantar ulcers, amputation, and death. Several studies report that a thermogram helps to detect changes in the plantar temperature of the foot, which may lead to a higher risk of ulceration. However, in diabetic patients, the ...
In the study by Yogapriya et al., clinical signs and symptoms of local inflammation were used to diagnose diabetic foot infection, in the hypothesis that infections have significant implications in predicting the likelihood of amputation in DFU [59]. The analyzed dataset consisted of 5890 DFU imag...