Promoting Limb Salvage through Multi-Disciplinary Care of the Diabetic Patient.

摘要: Despite an explosion in the number of options available for helping diabetic patients heal wounds, major amputation remains a critical issue these persons. Since diabetes prematurely ages tissues and no organ system is immune to its presence, it makes inherent sense that multi-disciplinary team approaches necessary make significant strides forward. Here, we present literature from fields podiatric surgery/medicine, vascular plastic surgery introduce successes limb salvage center can have on lives limbs with diabetes.