On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
A provocative 2026 cohort moves PMMA away from the diabetic foot wound and into remote calf tunnels. The idea is genuinely interesting—but extensive decompression, major reporting problems, and an unproven mechanism make this a signal to investigate, not a treatment to adopt.
Treating Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis (DFO) in the forefoot is a daily battle in the trenches of limb preservation. It is the most common location for DFU, DFI, and DFO, occurring in up to 90% of cases. While we often lean on conservative standard care, it frequently fails when the bone is involved. Our colleagues in... Continue Reading →
Intriguing work by Ehya and coworkers. Abstract This study explored the clinical effectiveness of antibiotic-loaded bone cement on primary treatment of diabetic foot infection. This is a randomized controlled study, including thirty-six patients with diabetic foot ulcer complicated by osteomyelitis who had undergone treatment between May 2018 and December 2019. Patients were randomly divided into... Continue Reading →
