Diabetic foot classifications
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Diabetic foot
classifications Bàn chân đái tháo đường
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Nguyễn, H. T., Huỳnh, L. T. B., & Hoàng, T. B. N. (2021). Diabetic foot classifications. Vietnam Journal of Diabetes and Endocrinology, (46), 68-80. https://doi.org/10.47122/vjde.2021.46.6

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is one of the commonest medical conditions prevalent all over the globe. This is associated with many complications due to its progressive involvement of various organ systems. Diabetic foot is one of the most serious complications of diabetes. However, diabetic foot has been often ignored by diabetic patient and also the treating physicians leading to a rise in major amputations. Various classifications have been proposed over decades describing the diabetic foot and the clinicians are hardly aware of them especially in developing and underdeveloped countries where this disease is rampantly increasing. One of the main reasons for this unawareness is the fact that this disease is often less discussed in the standard teaching curriculum. The other probable reason is that physicians show more interest in learning other classification like that in other diseases compared to disease like diabetic foot which actually deserves more importance. This overview serves to survey for the first time the various classifications proposed for the diabetic foot thereby helping the various treating physicians to update themselves in the diabetic foot.

https://doi.org/10.47122/vjde.2021.46.6
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