High prevalence of ischaemia, infection and serious comorbidity in patients with diabetic foot disease in Europe. Baseline results from the Eurodiale study

By L. Prompers, M. Huijberts, J. Apelqvist, E. Jude, A. Piaggesi, K. Bakker, M. Edmonds, P. Holstein, A. Jirkovska, D. Mauricio and 9 more. Diabetologia, 2006

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery

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In Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

1. G. Moneta
2. R. Frykberg
3. M. H. Murad
4. Massimo F. Piepoli
5. Stephen Burgess
6. S. Thompson

In Surgery

1. G. Moneta
2. R. Frykberg
3. M. H. Murad
4. Massimo F. Piepoli
5. Stephen Burgess
6. S. Thompson

Citations in the corpus

• Global vascular guidelines on the management of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (2019, background): “Thus, although it is estimated that approximately half of all patients with a DFU in western Europe and North America also have significant PAD, the disease may often appear relativelymild (not fulfilling the criteria for CLTI) on hemodynamic assessment.(204)”
• The Society for Vascular Surgery Lower Extremity Threatened Limb Classification System: risk stratification based on wound, ischemia, and foot infection (WIfI). (2014, background): “This issue is especially important in the setting of diabetic foot ulcers.(42-60)”
• The management of diabetic foot: A clinical practice guideline by the Society for Vascular Surgery in collaboration with the American Podiatric Medical Association and the Society for Vascular Medicine. (2016, methodology): “Infection is especially deleterious in patients with diabetes and PAD; in fact, PAD plus infection tripled the likelihood of nonhealing in the Eurodiale study.(6,172) Aggressive control of infection with appropriate antibiotics and timely, thorough débridement as well as prompt revascularization onc”
• 2012 infectious diseases society of america clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot infections. (2013, neutral): “the IDSA classification has been prospectively validated [13, 42, 43] as predicting the need for hospitalization (in one study, 0 for no infection, 4% for mild, 52% for moderate, and 89% for severe infection) and for limb amputation (3% for no in-”
• Prediction of outcome in individuals with diabetic foot ulcers: focus on the differences between individuals with and without peripheral arterial disease. The EURODIALE Study (2008, background): “the underlying disease and the important co-morbidity [7], clinical outcome of this population within a 1 year followup can be considered favourable.”