Some 641 physicians, surgeons, scientists, engineers and their trainees hailing from 50 nations participated in this year’s historic International Diabetic Foot Symposium (DFCon). Nicknamed “#DFCONline” because of its virtual, peri-pandemic nature. Co-Chairs David G. Armstrong of USC, Joseph L. Mills of Baylor College of Medicine and Michael S. Conte of UCSF welcomed a characteristically eclectic […]

This work from Nature Immunology via Microbiome Post. Thanks to Rob Kirsner and team for their a) work in this area and b) for him sending this our way. Skin wounds heal by coordinated induction of inflammation and tissue repair, but the initiating events are poorly defined. Here we uncover a fundamental role of commensal […]

Launched during the peri-pandemic DFCONline 2020, the goal of the American Limb Preservation Society is to serve as an interdisciplinary bridge– to develop teams and eliminate preventable amputations over the next generation. As we say…onward and upward!

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Work from Prof. Juliana Chan and team in Hong Kong gives further compelling data on the prevalence and severity of infections– and especially diabetes-related foot infections in a large, long-term population-based study.

A terrific contribution from Rathanayake and coworkers Lower extremity amputations and long-term outcomes in diabetic foot ulcers: A systematic review The weighted mean of re-amputation was 20.14%, 29.63% and 45.72% at 1, 3 and 5 years respectively.

Further data to support that we might do well by focusing on the nutritional needs of our patients as much as we do everything else!

Excellent continuing work from Moi Hoon Yap, Neil Reeves and colleagues from Manchester, et al! Abstract Recognition and analysis of Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU) using computerized methods is an emerging research area with the evolution of image-based machine learning algorithms. Existing research using visual computerized methods mainly focuses on recognition, detection, and segmentation of the […]

Recent work in BMJ Diabetes from our combined team at USC, University of Michigan, UT Southwestern, Podimetrics and University of Amsterdam analyzed two recent studies of recurrent wounds. What we found was that identification of wounds was clustered around visits to the doctor. This led to an average 15 day delay in diagnosis– and a […]