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Successful nonsurgical therapy of a diabetic foot osteomyelitis in a patient with peripheral artery disease with almost complete radiological restoration

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Title
Successful nonsurgical therapy of a diabetic foot osteomyelitis in a patient with peripheral artery disease with almost complete radiological restoration
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BMC Research Notes, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13104-018-3694-x
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C. V. Loupa, E. Meimeti, E. Voyatzoglou, A. Donou, E. Koutsantoniou, S. Lafoyanni

Abstract

Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common complication in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and can consequently lead to soft tissue infection and osteomyelitis. We present a case of a 68-year-old man with a history of Type 2 DM and symptomatic peripheral artery disease, referred to our hospital due to an infected lower extremity DFU. Cultures revealed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. There was a significant increase of inflammatory marker levels and plain X-rays revealed osteomyelitis. He underwent lower extremity angioplasty for the restoration of the blood flow. He received targeted intravenous antibiotic therapy for 2 weeks and continued ciprofloxacin along with clindamycin per os for 10 more weeks as outpatient. As a result, the patient presented almost complete healing of his DFU, reconstruction of osteomyelitis defects in X-ray and complete restoration of his foot functionality only 4 months after the end of the treatment. This case demonstrates a DFU complicated by osteomyelitis which resolved medically and nonsurgically, with the exception of surgical restoration of the blood flow.

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Unknown 44 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 8 18%
Student > Bachelor 8 18%
Student > Postgraduate 5 11%
Student > Master 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 14 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 27%
Unspecified 8 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 14 32%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 August 2018.
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#15,543,612
of 23,100,534 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#2,337
of 4,287 outputs
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#209,913
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#73
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