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Saturday, October 13, 2018

What are the complications of diabetic foot amputation?

What are the complications of diabetic foot amputation?
What are the complications of diabetic foot amputation?

Overview
The patient has had diabetes for more than 20 years. In the first few years, the patient did not have obvious discomfort. Later, blood sugar control has been unstable, sometimes as high as 28, 29, and sometimes can be controlled to 4 A few or so, I have not seen it before going to the special diabetes hospital system. I have been controlling my diet. I found a wound on my foot a month ago. I didn’t care at the time. Later, it appeared to be rotten and smelly. After I went to the hospital for examination, I found out that it was suffering. With the disease of diabetic foot, what are the complications after the amputation of diabetic foot?

Step / Method:
1. Clinically, patients with diabetes amputation have a higher probability of infection after surgery than non-diabetic patients. Therefore, once the patient has an abscess after surgery, it must be promptly drained and nursed, otherwise it may even need to be severe. Amputation surgery is performed again.

Are you afraid of amputation, eyelids, organ failure, and 9 major complications of diabetes?

At present, the mortality caused by diabetic complications is second only to cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and tumors. From the point of view of death, the cause of death in diabetic patients is mainly various complications.
Are you afraid of amputation, eyelids, organ failure, and 9 major complications of diabetes?
Among them, coronary heart disease is the most common cause of death in diabetic patients, accounting for 60% to 80% of deaths in diabetic patients.

Diabetes is not terrible, terrible is the complications!

1. Diabetes complicated by hypertension

People with diabetes are prone to high blood pressure, with an incidence of 30% to 50%. Diabetes and hypertension have a commonality, so they often have seizures. Therefore, the two are called homologous diseases.

In the early stage, there are headaches, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, insomnia and other symptoms. Further development may lead to lesions and even failure of important organs such as heart, brain and kidney.

Terrible complications: How do diabetics step by step to amputation and disability?

How do diabetics who have had small skin wounds and small wounds step by step to amputation and even death?
Terrible complications: How do diabetics step by step to amputation and disability?

1. Often the lower limbs are cold, numb, and the legs are “cramped”, which is easily mistaken for the lack of calcium in the elderly and delays the condition. Therefore, the coldness of the foot is an early signal, which is a poor performance of the blood supply to the foot. It must be treated early.

2. “Intermittent claudication” means that after the patient walks for a distance, he develops pain in the lower extremities and is forced to stop exercising. After a short break, the pain is relieved. After walking for a distance again, the pain reappears. As the ischemia increases, the distance the patient walks will become shorter and shorter.

To what extent does diabetes require amputation?

Diabetic foot is a very difficult problem in every hospital. In general, hospitals will consider amputation in order to control infection. In fact, amputation can not guarantee that they will no longer be infected, and the possibility of secondary amputation will occur if the treatment is not good. Therefore, amputation is not the best way for diabetic foot patients. Many patients will also ask: To what extent does diabetes require amputation? It seems that amputation is the only way to treat diabetic foot and the final result. In fact, diabetic foot does not need amputation, and patients ask this, obviously they also reject amputation, but do not know what better way besides amputation?
To what extent does diabetes require amputation?
Although diabetic foot is difficult to treat, finding the right way to treat diabetic foot can be cured. At present, there are probably methods for treating diabetic foot in China:

  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  • Biological debridement
  • Interventional therapy
  • Surgical sharp debridement


How long can diabetes live after amputation? The actual situation should be

Core Tip: Every diabetic patient wants to live a few more years, but if it is already necessary to amputate, it means that the disease has caused very serious damage to the body. How long can diabetic patients live after amputation, which should have a very big relationship with the actual recovery of patients and post-treatment.
How long can diabetes live after amputation? The actual situation should be
Diabetes poses a great threat to the health of patients. Especially as the disease continues to develop, the patient's body still has a lot of complications. Among them, the more common is the ulceration of hands and feet. And the wound is very difficult to heal after ulceration, which is actually caused by long-term blood sugar control. If the degree of infection in the hands and feet is very serious, the doctor will recommend the patient to amputate in order to save the life. In fact, this practice is tantamount to drinking and quenching thirst, but it is also a helpless move. The purpose of diabetes amputation is to prolong life. As for how long a patient can live after amputation, there is no fixed number of things.

Why is the mortality rate after amputation of diabetic foot high?

Before talking about mortality, it is first necessary to talk about the amputation rate of diabetic foot. Improper treatment of diabetic foot and patient treatment are not timely, resulting in high rates of amputation of diabetes. According to statistics, 70 amputation operations worldwide are related to diabetes. The amputation rate of diabetic foot patients is 25 times that of non-diabetics. Specifically, every 30 seconds in the world, a diabetic foot patient is amputated.
Why is the mortality rate after amputation of diabetic foot high?
If the amputation can cure the diabetic foot, it may be the best choice for some patients. However, according to the survey, the mortality rate of diabetic foot patients within 20 months after amputation is 20%, and the mortality rate within 5 years is even as high as 50-70%. This undoubtedly sounded the alarm for us.

In fact, the mortality rate after the amputation of diabetic foot is so high that it is foreseeable. The reasons can be analyzed from the following aspects:

1. There is no improvement in blood supply to the lower extremities. Diabetic foot is often accompanied by lower limb nerve and vascular disease, especially vascular disease, which is easy to cause blood circulation disorder in the lower limbs and insufficient blood supply. After amputation treatment, the vascular lesions of the lower extremities were not relieved, and the blood supply to the lower limbs was still insufficient, leading to further necrosis and life-threatening safety.