Association of Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Management With Reamputation Rates in Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetic foot infections constitute 20% of hospital admissions and are the underlying cause of 80% of amputations annually. Staging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may decrease reamputation rates in diabetic foot osteomyelitis.

Methods

A retrospective chart review was conducted to analyze the risk of reamputation in patients with diabetic foot osteomyelitis hospitalized between 2005 and 2022. MRI-guided therapy and proximal surgical margin pathologic evidence of osteomyelitis were compared. The primary outcome was the rate of reamputation up to 365 days.

Results

Enrollment consisted of 386 veterans with a diabetic foot infection complicated by osteomyelitis that required initial amputation, of which 110 patients required reamputation. MRI-guided therapy oc

SUBMITTER: Mergenhagen KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12035812 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature