Tag: amputation free survival

A Foot Ulcer Is a Whole-Body Diagnosis: New 5698 Patient Cohort Puts DFU Survival Back in the Cancer Conversation — But There’s Hope #DiabeticFoot #ActAgainstAmputation #ToeandFlow

A new 5,698-patient real-world cohort from Valladolid (Del Río-Solá et al., Adv Wound Care 2026) reports 61.8% five-year survival overall, falling to 32.1% after major amputation — and concludes the diabetic foot ulcer should be treated as a marker of advanced systemic disease, not an isolated wound. The newest entry in a fifteen-year line of evidence putting DFU mortality squarely in the cancer conversation.

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We Moved to the Toe to Escape Calcification — and It Followed Us There: Digital Artery Calcification, Falsely-High Toe Pressures, and a 20–30 mmHg Temporary Fix #DiabeticFoot #PAD #CLTI #ToePressure #Calcification #LimbPreservation #ActAgainstAmputation @alpslimb

We moved to the toe pressure precisely because digital arteries were supposed to be spared from calcification. A new JVS-Vascular Insights study from Welling, Bakker, Ferraresi and colleagues finds digital artery calcification in nearly 30% of limbs, shows it doubles one-year limb-event risk, and that it falsely elevates toe pressure — with a simple fix: when calcium shows on the foot film, subtract 20–30 mmHg.

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From Foot to Fatality: The #DiabeticFootAttack Is Real, and It’s Worse Than You Think @alpslimb #ActAgainstAmputation

A new single-center study from the Netherlands quantifies the devastating outcomes of the diabetic foot attack: only 48.5% wound closure, 46% major amputation by 12 months, 26% one-year mortality, and 12-month amputation-free survival of just 39.7%. Time is tissue.

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Scottish Nationwide Diabetic Foot Data: 5% Diabetes Prevalence, 1.1% DFU Incidence per year, Dramatically lower amputation-free Survival

Important work from our long-time SALSAmigos Graeme Leese and coworkers (Chamberlain et al) report five year data from a national Scottish database in the journal Diabetes Care. Abstract Objective: To describe incidence of foot ulceration and amputation-free survival associated with foot ulceration status in a national population-based cohort study of people with diabetes. Research design and... Continue Reading →

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Survival of Patients Following First Diagnosis of Diabetic Foot Complications: A Nationwide 15-Year Longitudinal Analysis #CGMH @USC @ALPSlimb #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot

Survival of Patients Following First Diagnosis of Diabetic Foot Complications: A Nationwide 15-Year Longitudinal Analysis Chia-Hung Lin 1,2,3, David G. Armstrong 4, Pi-Hua Liu1,5, Cheng-Wei Lin1, Chung-Huei Huang1 and Yu-Yao Huang1,3,6* Background and Aims: The long-term survival in people with type 2 diabetes following first diagnosis of diabetic foot complications (FDDFC) is unclear. The object is... Continue Reading →

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