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DIABETIC FOOT
DESCRIPTION
WHAT IS the diabetic foot?
People with Diabetes Mellitus of long term course may suffer different type of complications in the extremities.
Among them are the ones related to diabetic neuropathy (that carries arthropathy and foot deformity), vascular affectation (diabetic macroangiopathy) and propensity to soft-tissue infections.
Overall these complications imply high risk of ulceration, infection and other severe problems in diabetic patients. In general terms we know these problems, when they develop in the diabetic patient, as Diabetic Foot.
Diabetic Foot injuries must be assessed by the Angiology and Vascular Surgery specialist in order to study the possible degree of ischemia and to address the most appropriate treatment in that case, as well as the soft-tissue infection treatment and bone affectation (osteomyelitis).
