Abstract
Factors strongly related to the risk of developing diabetic foot infections include vascular, neuropathic and hyperglycemic complications of long-standing diabetes mellitus. These infections are common and serious, posing a worldwide burden on administrative providers of healthcare, patients and physicians. The most appropriate approach to these infections is with a multidisciplinary team. This subchapter summarizes the current state-of the-art concerning therapy, and scientific knowledge, for peripheral arterial insufficiency, hyperglycemia, and peripheral neuropathy of the diabetic foot, with an emphasis on the infectious complications.
Keywords: Diabetic foot infection, hyperglycemia, ischemia, pain, diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy.
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Title:An Overview on Diabetic Foot Infections, including Issues Related to Associated Pain, Hyperglycemia and Limb Ischemia
Volume: 24 Issue: 12
Author(s): Ilker Uckay*, Francois R. Jornayvaz, Dan Lebowitz, Giacomo Gastaldi, Karim Gariani and Benjamin A. Lipsky
Affiliation:
- Service of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva,Switzerland
Keywords: Diabetic foot infection, hyperglycemia, ischemia, pain, diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy.
Abstract: Factors strongly related to the risk of developing diabetic foot infections include vascular, neuropathic and hyperglycemic complications of long-standing diabetes mellitus. These infections are common and serious, posing a worldwide burden on administrative providers of healthcare, patients and physicians. The most appropriate approach to these infections is with a multidisciplinary team. This subchapter summarizes the current state-of the-art concerning therapy, and scientific knowledge, for peripheral arterial insufficiency, hyperglycemia, and peripheral neuropathy of the diabetic foot, with an emphasis on the infectious complications.
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Uckay Ilker *, Jornayvaz R. Francois , Lebowitz Dan, Gastaldi Giacomo , Gariani Karim and Lipsky A. Benjamin , An Overview on Diabetic Foot Infections, including Issues Related to Associated Pain, Hyperglycemia and Limb Ischemia, Current Pharmaceutical Design 2018; 24 (12) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1381612824666180302145754
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1381612824666180302145754 |
Print ISSN 1381-6128 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1873-4286 |
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