ABSTRACT

One of the most serious chronic complications of diabetes is diabetic foot infections. Neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease and trauma are among the leading factors to development of diabetic foot ulcers and predispose to progress the diseases to diabetic foot infections. Delay of diagnosis and treatment and poor antibiotic treatment of diabetic foot infections can result in amputation. Diabetic foot ulcers and infections are the main causes of foot amputation around the world. The five-year survival rate of patients underwent foot amputation due to diabetic foot infections is low. With this review it’s aimed to give information about the current epidemiology, risk factors, diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy of diabetic foot infections. In addition it’s intended to give the results of Dermobor treatment in small number of cases with diabetic foot ulcers and infections.