ALLMedicine™ Diabetic Foot Infections Center

Aug 15th, 2021 - Diabetic foot infections (DFI) are an increasingly common cause of hospitalizations. Once hospitalized with DFI, many patients require some level of amputation, often undergoing multiple operations. With increasing importance on patient-centered m...

Aug 13th, 2021 - Foot infections are the most prevalent problem in persons with diabetes. The burden of multidrug resistant (MDR) microorganisms in diabetic foot infections (DFIs) is rising day by day. Given that, the present study aims to determine the variety of...

Aug 11th, 2021 - Diabetic foot ulcers are a common complication of poorly controlled diabetes and often become infected, termed diabetic foot infection. There have been numerous studies of the microbiology of diabetic foot infection but no meta-analysis has provid...

Jul 17th, 2021 - In addition to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), various clinical signs, microbiological findings and inflammatory markers could be associated with severe diabetic foot infections (DFI). This study included a retrospective cohort of ...

Jun 29th, 2021 - In 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Drug Safety Communication regarding fluoroquinolone-associated aortic aneurysm. This quasi-experimental study assessed antibiotic prescribing for 198 patients hospitalized with diabetic...

May 24th, 2012 - Foot infections are a common and serious problem in persons with diabetes. Diabetic foot infections (DFIs) typically begin in a wound, most often a neuropathic ulceration. While all wounds are colonized with microorganisms, the presence of infecti...

Mar 2nd, 2020 - At its February meeting, the European Medicines Agency's (EMA's) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended two antibacterial agents: cefiderocol and a generic version of tigecycline. Cefiderocol (Fetcroja, Shionogi BV) is f...

Sep 13th, 2016 - Many patients with diabetic foot infections receive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus antibiotics unnecessarily, according to Kelly Reveles, PharmD, and her associates. Among the 318 patients with diabetic foot infections (DFIs) in the s.

Feb 24th, 2015 - A new risk score for amputation in patients with infected diabetic foot ulcers that could be used easily in daily practice has been developed, with the researchers claiming it may have better prognostic accuracy than the current International Work...

Aug 11th, 2014 - Scientific principles Diabetic foot infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Important risk factors for development of diabetic foot infections include neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease, and poor glycemic control.

Apr 22nd, 2013 - Some slow or nonresponding wounds may benefit from selected adjunctive measures such as bioengineered skin equivalents, growth factors, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or negative-pressure wound therapy. Multidisciplinary diabetic foot care teams impro.