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Endocrine & MetabolicSevere
Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Vascular Surgery · Endocrine & Metabolic
Severe
Severity
Common among diabetics — affects up to 25% of people with diabetes at some point in their lifetime
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Vascular Surgery
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Develops from a combination of peripheral neuropathy
- 2which reduces protective sensation and allows unnoticed injury
- 3and peripheral arterial disease
- 4which impairs blood flow needed for wound healing
- 5both common complications of long-standing poorly controlled diabetes. Repeated pressure from ill-fitting footwear
- 6minor trauma
- 7and elevated blood sugar levels that impair immune function and tissue repair further contribute to ulcer formation and poor healing.
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