The foot in diabetes

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Epidemiology and economic impact of foot ulcers -- The epidemiology of amputations and the influence of ethnicity -- Diabetic neuropathy -- Microcirculation and diabetic foot -- The pathway to ulceration: aetiopathogenesis -- What the practising clinician should know about food biomechanics -- The description and classification of diabetic foot lesions: systems for clinical care, for research and for audit -- Providing a diabetes foot care services: lessons from the veterans health affairs in the United States -- Providing a diabetic foot care service: the exeter integrated diabetic foot project -- The diabetic foot in primary care: a UK perspective -- Psychological and behavioural issues in diabetic foot ulceration -- Education in the management of the foot in diabetes -- Infection of the foot in persons with diabetics: epidemiology, pathophysiology, microbiology, clinical presentation and approach to therapy -- Challenges in the infected diabetic foot: osteomyelitis and methicillin-resistanct Staphylococcus aureus -- Dressing: is there an evidence base? -- New and alternative treatments for the diabetic foot: stem cells and gene transfer -- An introduction to larval therapy -- New and alternative treatments for diabetic foot ulcers: hormones and growth factors -- Radiology and magnetic resonance imaging of the diabetic foot -- Interventional radiology in the diabetic foot -- Peripheral vascular disease and reconstruction -- Charcot foot: what's new in pathogenesis and medical management? -- The operative treatment of charcot neuroarthropathy of the foot and ankle -- Surgery for ulceration and infection in the diabetic foot -- Conventional offloading and activity monitoring -- Amputations in the diabetic foot -- Rehabilitation of the amputee with diabetes -- Footwear for people with diabetes -- New casting techniques: introduction to the 'instant total contact cast' -- New technologies in wound healing: pressure-relieving dressings -- Negative pressure wound (VAC) therapy -- The diabetic foot in Brazil -- Recent international developments: India -- Recent international developments: Africa -- The international consensus on the diabetic foot -- 'The organisation of diabetic foot care': evidence-based recommendations -- Primary care: delivery/translation of guidelines into practice -- Practical aspects of establishing a multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic -- Practical issues in diabetes foot care: podiatry -- linking primary and secondary care -- Algorithms for assessing risks for ulcerations and amputations.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This latest edition reviews important developments in the field of diabetic foot care and its scientific basis. With a focus on practical applications and management it examines new technologies such as vacuum therapy, new casting techniques, the use stems cells and gene therapy in wound healing and reviews new international guidelines introduced for the management of infectious disease.