Outcome of Diabetic Foot Infections Treated Conservatively

Abstract

FOOT ULCERATION and supervening infection are a major cause of morbidity in diabetic patients. Diabetic foot lesions necessitate more hospital admissions than any other specific complication of diabetes.^1-3 Major amputation in the Western world remains frequent and is associated with high human and financial costs.⁴ Patients with diabetic foot ulcers require more than 50,000 lower extremity amputations annually in the United States, corresponding to direct annual costs associated with these amputations that exceed $1 billion.⁵