Deferring Amputation in Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: Doing More Harm Than Good?

Open Forum Infect Dis · 2021 · PMC8313514 · PMID 34322563

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In addition, when utilizing more stringent DFO criteria (ESR > 60 mm/h + CRP > 7.9 mg/dL + magnetic resonance image confirmation), fewer patients in the group that deferred amputation qualified for DFO as compared with the BKA group, though this did not reach statistical significance (34.6% vs 66.7%, respectively; P = .065) [ 10 ].

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