Diabetic Foot

Robert Hinchliffe MD FRCS Senior Lecturer in Vascular Surgery, St George’s Vascular Institute, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Matt Thompson MD FRCS Professor of Vascular Surgery, St George’s Vascular Institute, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Nicolaas Schaper MD PhD Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Ramesh Tripathi MD FICS FRCS(Edin) FACP(Australia) FRACS Vascular(Australia)Director and Professor of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, Narayana Institute of Vascular Sciences, Narayana Health Care, Bangalore, India Carlos Timaran MD Chief, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

• PrefaceContributorsIntroduction1 Epidemiology of diabetic foot disease and aetiology of ulceration2 Clinical assessment of foot disease and screening to prevent ulceration and amputation3 Setting up a diabetic foot service4 Economic aspects of foot care5 Medical therapy and metabolic control to optimise and decrease foot complications and improve healing6 Psychological aspects of diabetes-related foot disease7 Patient education or diabetes self-management education to prevent foot ulcers or amputations8 Managing infection in the diabetic foot9 Diabetic foot osteomyelitis: diagnosis and classification10 Osteomyelitis: medical management11 Osteomyelitis: surgical management12 Peripheral arterial disease in diabetes13 Microvascular disease14 Diagnosis of PAD15 Imaging PAD16 Angiosomes17 Distal bypass techniques18 Angioplasty techniques19 Outcomes of angioplasty and bypass in diabetes20 Pathobiology of neuropathy21 Diabetic neuropathy and the lower extremity: diagnosis, management and consequences22 Nerve decompression, a new treatment in in diabetic neuropathy?23 Acute and chronic wound biology in diabetes24 Scoring systems/assessment of the ulcerated foot25 Wound dressings and debridement26 Adjuncts to wound healing27 Standardisation of outcomes/endpoints of wound healing in everyday practice and clinical trials28 Surgical anatomy of the foot29 Surgical debridement30 Skin and local tissue flaps31 Free tissue transfer32 The causes and diagnosis of the acute charcot foot in diabetes33 Charcot osteoarthropathy: medical management34 Charcot osteoarthropathy: surgical management and offloading35 Minor amputation/major amputation36 Rehabilitation post-amputation37 Offloading38 Prevention of re-ulceration39 Preventive foot care programs