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Diagnosing and treating diabetic foot infections
Author(s) -
Lipsky Benjamin A.,
Berendt Anthony R.,
Embil John,
de Lalla Fausto
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
diabetes/metabolism research and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.307
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1520-7560
pISSN - 1520-7552
DOI - 10.1002/dmrr.441
Subject(s) - diabetic foot , medicine , intensive care medicine , foot (prosody) , diabetes mellitus , hyperbaric oxygen , antibiotic therapy , complication , clinical practice , antibiotics , surgery , physical therapy , biology , endocrinology , philosophy , linguistics , microbiology and biotechnology
Foot infections are a common, complex and costly complication of diabetes. We have made considerable progress in establishing consensus definitions for defining infection. Similarly, we have learned much about the appropriate ways to diagnose both soft tissue and bone infections. Accompanying these advances have been improvements in our knowledge of the proper approaches to antibiotic (and surgical) therapy for diabetic foot infections. Furthermore, investigators have explored the value of various adjunctive therapies, especially granulocyte colony stimulating factors and hyperbaric oxygen, for improving outcomes. This paper presents a summary of a minisymposium on infection of the diabetic foot that was held at the fourth International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot, in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. Crown copyright 2004. Reproduced with the permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.