Update on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, 14th December, 2014 at Bharatiya Bhasa Parishad, Kolkata

3rd Annual Conference, 28th June, 2015 at Hotel Hindusthan International, Kolkata

Diabetic Foot

A diabetic foot is a foot that exhibits any pathology that results directly from diabetes mellitus or any long-term (or "chronic") complication of diabetes mellitus.[1] Presence of several characteristic diabetic foot pathologies is called diabetic foot syndrome. These are thus umbrella terms. The most serious foot complications in diabetes are. 1) Ulceration Research estimates that the lifetime incidence of foot ulcers within the diabetic community is around 15% and may become as high as 25%.2) Infection 3) Neuropathic osteoarthropathy.