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The Diabetic Foot

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Patients with diabetic foot and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) may be treated with either endovascular intervention or open revascularization; there are no evidence-based recommendations showing that one method is more advantageous than the other. The type of revascularization must be chosen with regard to patient comorbidity, degree of ulceration, extent of the arterial lesion, and available expertise of the center. Diabetic foot osteomyelitis can be treated using either primarily surgical or primarily medical strategies.

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  1. Department of Vascular Medicine, University Heart and Vascular Center at University Clinics Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    E. Sebastian Debus

  2. Former Medical Director, Community Hospital Altoetting-Burghausen, Burghausen, Germany

    Reinhart T. Grundmann

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Debus, E.S., Grundmann, R.T. (2017). The Diabetic Foot. In: Evidence-based Therapy in Vascular Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47148-8_13

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