Diabetes PubMed

Honey is a low-cost topical therapy with important potential for healing. Its use may be considered in diabetic foot ulcers after a discussion of risks and benefits and in conjunction with standard wound care principles.

On the basis of this finding, diabetic foot protocol (DFP) should be used by every hospital to improve outcomes for patients with diabetic foot ulcer.

Vacuum assisted closure (VAC) appears to be very useful in the treatment of advanced diabetic foot lesions.

Peripheral vascular disease and peripheral neuropathy together with lack of foot self-examination, poor glycaemic control and anaemia are main significant risk factors for diabetic foot ulceration.

Diabetic foot syndrom was present more often in type-2 diabetics with longer disease duration, in those on insulin treatment, in men of older age, further in the diabetics with pure glycemic control and/or with chronic microvascular diabetic complications.

If revascularization is successful, it can effectively contributes to the lower extremity salvage of the patient with neuroischemic diabetic foot.

There is no high quality research evidence evaluating complex interventions for preventing diabetic foot ulceration and insufficient evidence of benefit.