Emergency in Diabetic Foot

Introduction Diabetes is a metabolic disease that affects approximately 346 million people worldwide, with a prevalence of 6% in general population [1]. Epidemiological data suggest that the disease is rapidly increasing and predict that about 440 million people will be affected in 2030 (7.5%) [2]. Diabetic Foot (DF) is one of the diabetic complication and a foot lesion appears in 15% of cases during the course of the disease [3-5]. Further, DF is the most common cause for hospitalization in diabetic patients and the main reason of lower limbs amputation [4,6]. The prevalence of major amputation among diabetic subjects affects up to 4,8%, interesting more than 1 million people [2,7]. In more than 85% of cases lower limb amputation is a complication of a foot lesion after a trivial injury of the foot negatively evolved [8,9].