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Foot complications among diabetics attending a district hospital in Kenya: Predisposing factors and possible intervention

The Annals of African Surgery, 2008
OBJECTIVES: To relate skin health, footwear practices and foot care education with occurrence of foot complications among diabetics attending a district hospital in Kenya.
M.M. Obimbo, P.K. Bundi, F. Collis
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Prognosis of the infected diabetic foot ulcer: a 12‐month prospective observational study

Diabetic Medicine, 2017
To determine clinical outcomes and explore prognostic factors related to ulcer healing in people with a clinically infected diabetic foot ulcer.
Mwidimi Ndosi, A. Wright-Hughes, S. Brown, M. Backhouse, Benjamin A Lipsky, M. Bhogal, C. Reynolds, P. Vowden, E. Jude, J. Nixon, E. Nelson   +10 more
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Diabetic Foot Ulcer Grand Challenge 2022 Summary

, 2023
The Diabetic Foot Ulcer Challenge 2022 focused on the task of diabetic foot ulcer segmentation, based on the work completed in previous DFU challenges.
Yap, Moi Hoon, Chandrabalan, Vishnu, O’Shea, Claire, Kendrick, Connah, Reeves, Neil D., Pappachan, Joseph M., Cassidy, Bill   +6 more
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CODIFI (Concordance in Diabetic Foot Ulcer Infection): a cross-sectional study of wound swab versus tissue sampling in infected diabetic foot ulcers in England

BMJ Open, 2018
Objective To determine the extent of agreement and patterns of disagreement between wound swab and tissue samples in patients with an infected diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). Design Multicentre, prospective, cross-sectional study.
A. Nelson, A. Wright-Hughes, M. Backhouse, Benjamin A Lipsky, J. Nixon, M. Bhogal, C. Reynolds, Sarah Brown   +7 more
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcer

Journal of Diabetes Research, 2017
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), an ideal cell source for regenerative therapy with no ethical issues, play an important role in diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). Growing evidence has demonstrated that MSCs transplantation can accelerate wound closure, ameliorate
Yue Cao, X. Gang, Chenglin Sun, Guixia Wang   +3 more
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Foot Orthosis For Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcer [PDF]

, 2018
A foot orthosis is commonly used in diabetic individuals in order to relieve pain and avoid the formation of ulcer. They can be fabricated from a variety of materials which possess different degrees of hardness, control and conformability.
Kang, Jing Yong
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Diabetic foot disease: impact of ulcer location on ulcer healing

, 2013
Background Healing of heel ulcers in patients with diabetes is considered to be poor, but there is relatively little information on the influence of ulcer location on ulcer healing.
Pickwell, KM, Pickwell, Kristy M., Schaper, Nicolaas C., Siersma, Volkert Dirk, Siersma, Volkert D., Kars, M, Schaper, NC, Kars, Marleen, Holstein, PE, Holstein, Per E.   +9 more
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The Relationship between Controlling HbA1C and Infectious Foot Ulcer

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2012
Background: One of the major risk factors of foot ulcer is uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM) or in fact uncontrolled HbA1C. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between controlling HbA1C and foot ulcer.
Mohsen Meidani, Farzin Khorvash, Mohammad Reza Rajabpournikfam   +2 more
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Research progress of triglyceride-glucose index with type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabetic foot ulcer

Zhongguo linchuang yanjiu
Diabetic foot ulcer is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus, usually caused by neuropathy and peripheral arterial disease. Studies have shown that insulin resistance is a known risk factor for diabetic foot ulcer.
SHEN Xinyi, LIU Qingyang
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Diabetic foot ulceration with osteomyelitis: the importance of early detection

, 2008
This case study explores the management of a chronic diabetic foot ulcer complicated by severe soft tissue infection (cellulitis) and bony infection (osteomyelitis) in a patient with type 2 ...
Tranter, Jennifer, McIntosh, Caroline
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