When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes

Infection is a common complication in patients with diabetic foot ulcer, leading to lower extremities amputation and healing failure. In this article, we report the case of a 39‐year‐old man with diabetes who developed a severe soft tissue infection and osteomyelitis after experiencing a major amput...

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Autores principales: Caruso, Paola, Gicchino, Maurizio, Longo, Miriam, Scappaticcio, Lorenzo, Campitiello, Ferdinando, Esposito, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8756305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34255439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jdi.13627
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author Caruso, Paola
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description Infection is a common complication in patients with diabetic foot ulcer, leading to lower extremities amputation and healing failure. In this article, we report the case of a 39‐year‐old man with diabetes who developed a severe soft tissue infection and osteomyelitis after experiencing a major amputation for wet gangrene of both the foot and the ankle.
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spelling pubmed-87563052022-01-19 When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes Caruso, Paola Gicchino, Maurizio Longo, Miriam Scappaticcio, Lorenzo Campitiello, Ferdinando Esposito, Katherine J Diabetes Investig Case Report Infection is a common complication in patients with diabetic foot ulcer, leading to lower extremities amputation and healing failure. In this article, we report the case of a 39‐year‐old man with diabetes who developed a severe soft tissue infection and osteomyelitis after experiencing a major amputation for wet gangrene of both the foot and the ankle. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-04 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8756305/ /pubmed/34255439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jdi.13627 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Diabetes Investigation published by Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD) and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Caruso, Paola
Gicchino, Maurizio
Longo, Miriam
Scappaticcio, Lorenzo
Campitiello, Ferdinando
Esposito, Katherine
When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes
title When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes
title_full When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes
title_fullStr When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes
title_full_unstemmed When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes
title_short When amputation is not the end of the challenge: A successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes
title_sort when amputation is not the end of the challenge: a successful therapy for osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection in a patient with type 1 diabetes
topic Case Report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34255439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jdi.13627
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