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Abstract
Diabetes is an incremental problem all over the world. Both diabetes and foot problems are almost synchronous. Foot problems arising from diabetes are the most growing problem. Significant increase in mortality among diabetic patients, observed over the past 20 years, is attributed to the development of macro and micro vascular complications including failure of the wound healing process. Fifteen to twenty percent of all patients with diabetes have foot ulceration. The treatment of such infections is often amputation, especially when it reaches to ulcers that can’t be treated easily with antibiotics. The prevalence of foot ulcers among patients with diabetes is 12% with incidence of lower limb ulcers in patient approaches 10% of which 5% may require amputation. Diabetes-induced limb amputation rate ranged between 39 to 68%.