Background: Patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) experience large burdens of morbidity, mortality, and hospital costs. Over a third of patients with diabetes will develop DFUs in their lifetime; and almost half of these patients subsequently develop diabetic foot infections (DFIs). Although it has been reported that obese patients with diabetes do not have higher [...]

Background: Foot amputation rates in Black patients with diabetic foot complications have been historically higher than White patients. To determine if improvements in this disparity occurred, we carried out trend analysis of lower extremity amputation rates for patients hospitalized with diabetic foot ulcers and infections (DFU/Is). Methods: Using the National Inpatient Sample database, we conducted [...]

Case Presentation: A 58-year-old man with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, peripheral arterial disease, and right fifth toe amputation for osteomyelitis presented to the emergency room with pain at the site of a non-healing right foot ulcer. When the pain started two years prior, the patient was diagnosed with a diabetic foot infection (DFI) from poorly [...]