WHS guidelines update: Diabetic foot ulcer treatment guidelines.

LA Lavery, KE Davis, SJ Berriman… - Wound Repair & …, 2016 - search.ebscohost.com
The article discusses the 2015 update of the guidelines from professional body Wound
Healing Society for treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). The guidelines was reportedly …

Diagnostics and treatment of the diabetic foot

J Apelqvist - Endocrine, 2012 - Springer
Every 30 s, a lower limb is amputated due to diabetes. Of all amputations in diabetic patients
85% are preceded by a foot ulcer which subsequently deteriorates to a severe infection or …

[HTML][HTML] The microbiology of diabetic foot infections: a meta-analysis

KE Macdonald, S Boeckh, HJ Stacey, JD Jones - BMC infectious diseases, 2021 - Springer
Background Diabetic foot ulcers are a common complication of poorly controlled diabetes
and often become infected, termed diabetic foot infection. There have been numerous …

2012 Infectious Diseases Society of America clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot infections

BA Lipsky, AR Berendt, PB Cornia… - Clinical infectious …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Foot infections are a common and serious problem in persons with diabetes. Diabetic foot
infections (DFIs) typically begin in a wound, most often a neuropathic ulceration. While all …

Global recurrence rates in diabetic foot ulcers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

XL Fu, H Ding, WW Miao, CX Mao… - Diabetes/metabolism …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recurrence rates of diabetic foot ulcers vary widely in the published literature. The aim of
this systematic review is to estimate recurrence rates of diabetic foot ulcers. We did a …

In diabetic foot infections antibiotics are to treat infection, not to heal wounds

M Abbas, I Uçkay, BA Lipsky - Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Diabetic foot ulcers, especially when they become infected, are a leading
cause of morbidity and may lead to severe consequences, such as amputation. Optimal …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of multidrug resistant organisms on the outcome of diabetic foot infection

N Saltoglu, O Ergonul, N Tulek, M Yemisen… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives We described the clinical outcomes of the diabetic patients who had foot
infections with multidrug resistant organisms. Methods We included the patients with …

Diagnosis and management of infection in the diabetic foot

EJG Peters, BA Lipsky - Medical Clinics, 2013 - medical.theclinics.com
Infections of the foot are common in persons with diabetes mellitus. 1, 2 Estimates of the
incidence of diabetic foot infections range from a lifetime risk of 4% in persons with diabetes …

Systemic antibiotics for treating diabetic foot infections

AS Olid, I Solà, LA Barajas‐Nava… - Cochrane Database …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Foot infection is the most common cause of non‐traumatic amputation in people
with diabetes. Most diabetic foot infections (DFIs) require systemic antibiotic therapy and the …

Interventions in the management of infection in the foot in diabetes: a systematic review

EJ Peters, BA Lipsky, J Aragón‐Sánchez… - Diabetes/metabolism …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The expert panel on diabetic foot infection (DFI) of the International Working Group on the
Diabetic Foot conducted a systematic review seeking all published reports relating to any …