Lower extremity amputations and long-term outcomes in diabetic foot ulcers: A systematic review

Diabetes mellitus causes a large majority of non-traumatic major and minor amputations globally. Patients with diabetes are clinically complex with a multifactorial association between diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) and subsequent lower extremity amputations (LEA). Few studies show the long-term outcomes within the cohort of DFU-associated LEA.To highlight the long-term outcomes of LEA as a result of DFU.PubMed/MEDLINE and Google Scholar were...