Recent Advances in Management of Chronic Non healing Diabetic Foot Ulcers

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As number of Diabetic patients are increasing, different chronic complications of diabetes are also increasing, Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcer is one of the very important but most neglected complication of Diabetes. Foot ulcers in diabetic patients are not uncommon. Approximately 14% of diabetic ulcers lead to amputation & in most of the cases it is trivial foot ulcer which ultimately leads to amputation. More than 80,000 amputations are performed each year on diabetic patients in the United States, and around 50% of the people with amputations will develop ulcerations and infections in the contra lateral limb within 18 months.