High Risk Diabetic Foot: Treatment and Prevention

by Lavery; Lawrence A.

• ISBN13: 9781420083019
• ISBN10: 1420083015
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-19
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Emphasizing a team approach that includes the podiatrist, endocrinologist, vascular surgeon, orthopedist, and infectious disease specialist, The High Risk Diabetic Footprovides a thorough and detailed resource on the management of complex diabetic foot problems. This accessible text is essential in the effort of physicians to reduce infections and amputations through careful examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.Key features in The High Risk Diabetic Footinclude:

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Contributors	p. ix
Peripheral arterial disease	p. 1
Clinical and vascular laboratory assessment of peripheral vascular disease	p. 9
Endovascular treatment of infrainguinal arterial disease	p. 28
Open arterial reconstruction of the diabetic foot	p. 35
Diabetic neuropathy and the lower extremity	p. 49
Painful diabetic neuropathy	p. 65
Advanced therapies to treat diabetic foot ulcers	p. 80
The infected diabetic foot	p. 92
Offloading the diabetic foot	p. 127
Surgical approach to the diabetic foot ulcer	p. 155
Charcot arthropathy	p. 173
Amputation	p. 192
Preventing foot complications	p. 216
Impact of specialized foot clinics	p. 227
Index	p. 257
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