Limb salvage in patients with diabetes is not a temporary solution but a Life-Changing procedure

Diabetes Care

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2015, Pages e156-e157

  Giurato, Laura ^a   Vainieri, Erika ^a   Meloni, Marco ^a   Izzo, Valentina ^a   Ruotolo, Valeria ^a   Fabiano, Sebastiano ^a   Pampana, Enrico ^a   Lipsky, Benjamin ^b   Gandini, Roberto ^a   Uccioli, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; GANGRENE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB SALVAGE; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; SURVIVAL RATE; ULCER HEALING; WOUND HEALING; AGED; AMPUTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84962476887     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc15-0989     Document Type: Note

References (5)

1. Aiello A, Anichini R, Brocco E, et al. Treatment of peripheral arterial disease in diabetes: A consensus of the Italian Societies of Diabetes (SID, AMD), Radiology (SIRM) and Vascular Endovascular Surgery (SICVE). Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2014;24:355-369.
2. Uccioli L, Gandini R, Giurato L, et al. Long-term outcomes of diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia followed in a tertiary referral diabetic foot clinic. Diabetes Care 2010;33:977-982.
3. Schaper NC, Andros G, Apelqvist J, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial disease in diabetic patients with a foot ulcer. A progress report of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2012;28(Suppl.1):218-224.
4. de Marco R, Locatelli F, Zoppini G, Verlato G, Bonora E, Muggeo M. Cause-specific mortality in type 2 diabetes. The Verona Diabetes Study. Diabetes Care 1999;22:756-761.
5. Lombardo FL, Maggini M, De Bellis A, Seghieri G, Anichini R. Lower extremity amputations in persons with and without diabetes in Italy: 2001-2010. PLoS ONE 2014;9:e86405.