Diabetes poses a serious threat to foot and ankle health, especially in Bexar County, where amputation rates are ...

Diabetes can cause a variety of health conditions, including Charcot foot — a serious disorder that can deteriorate the bones of the foot and lead to deformity and amputation. “The bones of the foot ...

Diabetic foot, a serious yet preventable complication, arises from prolonged high blood sugar damaging nerves and blood flow. This leads to vulnerable ...

A growing number of diabetics are being diagnosed with a debilitating foot deformity called Charcot foot. Charcot foot often confines patients to wheelchairs, and in severe cases can require ...

Background. A 61-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to a diabetic foot clinic 1 year after he injured his left foot in a slip injury. Examination showed collapse of the longitudinal ...

The alarming increase of morbidly obese diabetics is causing more new cases of a debilitating foot deformity called Charcot foot. But a surgical technique that secures foot bones with an external ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Charcot foot arthropathy is a complex disease process that most often presents in patients with diabetes who ...

Diabetes is a condition that results in high blood sugar (glucose) in a patient because the body is not making enough of the hormone insulin, which helps break down the sugar entering the cells and ...

University Health has opened the Limb Salvage Clinic as part of the Texas Diabetes Institute to treat diabetic foot ulcers in ...

Older adults in nursing homes and long-term care facilities often have multiple health problems. With medical advances in the treatment of diabetes, aging Americans are living longer with the disease.

Nachiappan Chockalingam receives funding from European Commission. Every 20 seconds someone, somewhere on the planet, loses a foot due to diabetes. Foot ulcers are the starting point of more than 80% ...

Severe pain, tingling, or a burning sensation in the feet can be early signs of Diabetic Foot, a serious complication of diabetes. If blisters appear or a wound caused by a minor injury fails to heal ...