Major Amputation Profoundly Increases Mortality in Patients With Diabetic Foot Infection.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: An acute diabetic foot infection (DFI) is a serious condition and a leading cause of hospitalization and major amputation in patients with diabetes. Aim of this study was to evaluate the long term survival and risk factors for death and amputation after the DFI requiring hospital treatment. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study included all adult patients hospitalized for DFI treatments during 2010-2014. Overall survival (OS) and amputation free survival (AFS) (without major amputation) was calculated. We performed a Cox regression analysis of several clinical parameters to evaluate the effects of clinical parameters on overall and amputation-free survival. Results: Total of 324 patients with mean age of 66.8 (SD 12.8) years were included. The one-

SUBMITTER: Vuorlaakso M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8120024 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature