Diabetes foot ulceration in a Nigerian hospital: In-hospital mortality in relation to the presenting demographic, clinical and laboratory features

International Wound Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 381-385

  Ekpebegh, Chukwuma O ^a   Iwuala, Sandra O ^b   Fasanmade, Olufemi A ^b   Ogbera, Anthonia O ^b   Igumbor, Ehi ^c   Ohwovoriole, Augustine E ^b  

^a WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Diabetic foot ulceration; In hospital mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 73349135951     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2009.00627.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Marco R, Locatelli F, Zoppini G, Verlato G, Bonora E, Muggeo M. The Verona Diabetes Study: cause-specific mortality in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 1999 22 : 756 761.
2. Wong JSK, Pearson DWM, Murchison LE, Williams MJ, Narayan V. Mortality in diabetes mellitus: experience of a geographically defined population. Diabet Med 1991 8 : 135 139.
3. Chin-Hsiqo T. Mortality and causes of death in a National sample of diabetic patients in Taiwan. Diabetes Care 2004 27 : 1605 1609.
4. Bertoni AG, Saydah S, Brancati FL. Diabetes and the risk of infection related mortality in the US. Diabetes Care 2001 24 : 1044 1049.
5. Jeffcoate W, Ince P, Chipchase SY, Game FL. Assessing the outcome of the management of diabetes foot ulcers using ulcer-related and person-related measures. Diabetes Care 2006 29 : 1784 1787.
6. Resnick HE, Carter EA, Lindsay R, Henly SJ, Ness FK, Welty TK, Lee ET, Howard BV. The strong Heart study. Relation of lower extremity amputation to all cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in American Indians. Diabetes Care 2004 27 : 1286 1293.
7. Moulik PK, Mtonga R, Gill GV. Amputation and mortality in new-onset diabetic foot ulcers stratified by aetiology. Diabetes Care 2003 26 : 491 494.
8. Bertoni AG, Anderson G, Krop JS, Brancati FL. Diabetes related morbidity and mortality in a National sample of US elders. Diabetes Care 2002 25 : 471 475.
9. Gadepalli R, Dhawan B, Sreenivas V, Kapil A, Aminini AC, Chaudhry R. A clinico-microbiological study of diabetic foot ulcers in an Indian tertiary care hospital. Diabetes Care 2006 29 : 1727 1732. (Pubitemid 44156621)
10. Faglia E, Favales F, Morabito A. New ulceration, new major amputation and survival rates in diabetic subjects hospitalized for foot ulceration from 1990 to 1993: a 6.5 year follow up. Diabetes Care 2001 24 : 78 83.
11. Sano D, Tieno H, Drabo Y, Sanou A. Management of the diabetic foot, apropos of 42 cases at the Ougadougou University Hospital Center. Dakar Med 1998 43 : 109 113.
12. Kengne AP, Dzudie AI, Fezue LL, Mbanya JC. Impact of secondary foot complications on the in-patient. Int J Low Extrem Wounds 2006 5 : 64 8.
13. Gulam-Abbas Z, Lutale JK, Morbach S, Archibald LK. Clinical outcome of diabetes patients hospitalized with foot ulcers, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Diabet Med 2002 19 : 575 579.
14. Adeleye JO. Diabetic foot disease: the perspective of a Nigerian tertiary health care center. Pract Diabet Int 2005 22 : 211 214.
15. Unachukwu C, Babatunde S, Ihekwaba AE. Diabetes, hand and/or foot ulcers: a cross-sectional hospital based study in Port Harcourt Nigeria. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2006 75 : 148 152.
16. Ogbera AO, Fasanmade O, Ohwovoriole AE, Adediran O. An assessment of the disease burden of foot ulcer in patients with diabetes mellitus attending a teaching hospital in Lagos Nigeria. Int J Low Extrem Wounds 2006 5 : 244 249.
17. Kolawole BA, Leslie Ajayi AA. Prognostic indices for intra-hospital mortality in Nigerian diabetic NIDDM patients. J Diabetes Complications 2000 14 : 84 9.
18. Wagner FW. The dysvascular foot: a system for diagnosis and treatment. Foot Ankle 2 : 1981 64 122.
19. Abbas ZG, Gill GV, Archbald LK. The epidemiology of diabetic limb sepis: an African perspective. Diabet Med 2002 19 : 895 899.
20. Benotmane A, Mohammed F, Ayad F, Kadi K, Azzouz A. Diabetic foot lesions: etiologic and prognostic factors. Diabetes Metab 2000 26 : 113 117.
21. Leslie FT. Amputations in patients attending a diabetic clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiop Med J 1995 33 : 15 20.
22. Lipsky BA, Sheehan P, Armstrong DG, Tice AD, Polis AB, Abramson MA. Clinical predictors of treatment failure for diabetic foot infections: data from a prospective trial. Int Wound J 2007 4 : 30 8.