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Title: | Healing and mortality rates following toe amputation in type 2 diabetes mellitus |
Authors: | Vassallo, Ian Mario Gatt, Alfred Cassar, Kevin Papanas, Nikolaos Formosa, Cynthia |
Keywords: | Type 2 diabetes -- Complications Diabetic foot -- Complications Toes -- Amputation -- Healing Diabetes -- Mortality |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Georg Thieme Verlag |
Citation: | Vassallo, I. M., Gatt, A., Cassar, K., Papanas, N., & Formosa, C. (2021). Healing and mortality rates following toe amputation in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes, 129(06), 438-442. |
Abstract: | Background and Aim: This single-centre study aimed to determine
healing, re-ulceration, re-amputation and mortality
rates at one year after toe amputations in patients with type 2
diabetes (T2DM). Patients and Methods: Eighty-one participants with T2DM admitted for toe amputation were included. Patient characteristics, peripheral circulation and neuropathy status were recorded. Subjects were then followed every 3 months postamputation for a year. Results: Overall, 59.3 % of participants underwent further surgery (n = 31 to revise the original amputation site and n = 17 to amputate a new site). During 12 months, 45.7 % of participants presented with a new ulcer at a different site. Mortality was 7.4 %. In 12.4 % of participants, the amputation site remained incompletely healed. Only 20.9 % had no complications in 12 months. At 12 months, 80.2 % of study cohort had a completely healed amputation site. Conclusion: In conclusion, this study highlighted high re-intervention, re-amputation and new ulceration rates. Strategies to improves these outcomes in such high-risk patients are warranted. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/100464 |
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