On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
A new manuscript in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology from our global team explores how machine learning is being used to detect, diagnose, and even predict complications of diabetes. The paper, authored by Agatha Scheideman, Mandy Shao, Henry Zelada, Jorge Cuadros, Joshua Foreman, Pinaki Sarder, Cindy Ho, Niels Ejskjaer, Jesper Fleischer, Simon Lebech... Continue Reading →
A new study published in The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds by our long time friends and colleagues in Spain offers a cautionary reminder: not all positive cultures mean bone infection. In a cohort of 93 patients undergoing conservative surgery for diabetic foot osteomyelitis, researchers compared microbiological cultures from bone resection margins with histopathology—the gold standard. Their... Continue Reading →
From Daniel Jupiter's team in Galveston, led by Korst. This study aims to examine the duration and rate of delayed diagnosis in Charcot foot. We systematically reviewed articles published in Medline, SCOPUS, and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature to identify articles discussing delayed or misdiagnosis of Charcot foot. Random-effects models were generated... Continue Reading →
More strong and practical work from our colleagues at King's... The Role of Bone Scintigraphy with SPECT/CT in the Characterization and Early Diagnosis of Stage 0 Charcot Neuroarthropathy Abstract: We describe the use of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomography (SPECT/CT) in the investigation and diagnosis of Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN) in patients with a hot... Continue Reading →
