Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews
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Surgery for acute and chronic diabetic foot problems has long been an integral component of care. While partial foot amputations remain as important diabetic limb-salvaging operations, foot-sparing reconstructive procedures have become equally important strategies to preserve the functional anatomy of the foot while addressing infection, chronic deformities, and ulcerations. ⋯ This brief overview from the Association for Diabetic Foot Surgeons describes common conditions best treated by surgical interventions, as well as specific indications. While techniques and indications continue to evolve, effective surgical management of the diabetic foot remains an integral component of care as well as for the prevention of recurrent ulceration.
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Diabetes Metab. Res. Rev. · Mar 2020
ReviewSurgical revascularization and reconstruction procedures in diabetic foot ulceration.
This article summarizes surgical procedures for preservation of the foot in diabetic patients with peripheral artery disease. Distal bypass surgery performed to perigeniculate arteries and to an isolated 'blind' popliteal segment with visible collaterals can be performed with limb salvage rates close to what can be achieved with standard bypass to crural arteries. This is also the case when performing bypass to the dorsalis pedis artery. ⋯ In patients with need of more extensive cover of defects, the transplant of muscular or fasciocutaneous free flaps has provided good results in the few centres that have applied this technique. This procedure can be combined with a revascularization in the same session or at a later stage. A majority of the described techniques can be implemented in most vascular centres and they should be considered in complicated cases when standard methods of revascularization and reconstruction do not suffice.