Diabetic foot

Diabetic foot

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 lower leg amputations.[3]
  • Diabetic foot infections
  • Neuropathic osteoarthropathy of the foot

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]

References


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