NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A biopsy of the bone can help doctors determine what antibiotic is the best to use in treating diabetic patients with serious foot infections, according to findings ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The new guidance is an update to the 2019 International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot guidelines. These ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010;8(11):1293-1305. No residual infected tissue (e.g., postamputation) Parenteral or oral 2–5 days Residual infected soft tissue (but not bone) Parenteral or oral 2–4 ...

Researchers suggested that diabetic foot osteomyelitis — which results in worse outcomes compared with soft tissue infections — should be separated into its own category in the Infectious Diseases ...

Osteomyelitis is an infection in your bone. Osteomyelitis in your foot or ankle often develops because you have a wound on your foot that isn’t healing. You can develop osteomyelitis even if you can’t ...

The findings suggest that vitamin D deficiency is more common in diabetic patients with foot ulcers and may contribute to the ...

Foot problems run the gamut from blisters caused by wearing the wrong shoes to nonhealing foot ulcers caused by diabetes. Some foot problems are triggered by overuse and standing all day on the job, ...

Infection of bone usually occurs by contiguous spread from soft tissue. This process usually takes days or weeks, and is uncommon in acute infections. In most centers, approximately 20% of patients ...