Objective We examined associations between ulcer bioburden and ulcer outcomes in neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) that lacked clinical signs of infection. Research Design and Methods Three ...

When infection complicates a foot ulcer, the combination can be limb-threatening, or life-threatening. Infection is defined clinically, but wound cultures assist in identification of causative ...

Medically reviewed by Adam H. Kaplan, DPM Over time type 2 diabetes can affect all body parts, including the feet. When blood ...

This may occur through small fissures between the toes, acute traumatic wounds, burns or chronic pressure-related ulcers. Infection may remain mild and localized, or spread rapidly along tendon ...

He had no clinical signs of infection; his HIV infection had been ... Within a few days, the patient developed a painful ulcer at the left oral commissure. He then consulted his general ...

The foot and ankle were immobilized in a non ... In addition, inflammation associated with trauma, ulcer, infection, or surgery may be associated with cytokine activation and associated osteopenia ...

These issues put patients with diabetes at greater risk for foot ulcers, non-healing wounds, and infections that, left untreated, often result in loss of a limb. Jose Samano faced a dire situation ...