Diabetic foot
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A diabetic foot is a foot that exhibits any pathology that results directly from diabetes mellitus or any long-term (or "chronic") complication of diabetes mellitus.[1] Presence of several characteristic diabetic foot pathologies is called diabetic foot syndrome. These are thus umbrella terms.
The most serious foot complications in diabetes are:[2]
- Diabetic foot ulceration. It occurs in 15% of all patients with diabetes and precedes 84% of all diabetes-related lower leg amputations.[3]
- Diabetic foot infections
- Neuropathic osteoarthropathy of the foot
[edit] Prevention
"Of all methods proposed to prevent diabetic foot ulcers, only foot temperature-guided avoidance therapy was found beneficial in RCTs" according to a meta-analysis.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ [1] [2] Boulton in Diabetes, 30;36 2002
- ^ Frykberg RG, Armstrong DG, Giurini J, et al. (2000). "Diabetic foot disorders: a clinical practice guideline. American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons". J Foot Ankle Surg 39 (5 Suppl): S1–60. PMID 11280471. http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/11280471/reload=0;jsessionid=C38C571D5D1CB95F188AC5E80A9D6B05.jvm1.
- ^ Brem Harold, Tomic-Canic Marjana (2007). "Cellular and Molecular basis of wound healing in diabetes". JCI 117 (5): 1219–1222. doi:10.1172/JCI32169. PMC 1857239. PMID 17476353. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1857239.
- ^ Arad Y, Fonseca V, Peters A, Vinik A (2011). "Beyond the Monofilament for the Insensate Diabetic Foot: A systematic review of randomized trials to prevent the occurrence of plantar foot ulcers in patients with diabetes". Diabetes Care 34 (4): 1041–6. doi:10.2337/dc10-1666. PMC 3064020. PMID 21447666. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=21447666.
