Fig 1.
Inflammatory markers in surgical and non-surgical diabetic foot osteomyelitis.
A and B: CRP and WCC, respectively, are plotted for patients who had and who did not have surgery. n:“Yes” 91; “No” 32. Unpaired t-test, significant p<0.05. C and D: CRP and WCC in patients who had no surgery and those who had surgery indicated by sepsis or ischaemia. n: no surgery: 32; surgery sepsis: 50; surgery ischaemia: 11. One-way ANOVA C: p<0.002; D: p<0.01. Tukey’s Multiple Comparison test: C: **: p<0.009; *: p<0.03; D: *: p<0.02.
Table 1.
Type of microbiology sample for diagnosis of diabetic foot osteomyelitis.
Table 2.
Type of microbiology sample per patient for diagnosis of diabetic foot osteomyelitis.
Fig 2.
Distribution of microbiological isolates from diabetic foot wounds in patients with osteomyelitis.
A. Distribution by culture outcome. Anaerobes are not discriminated by Gram stain. B and C. Distribution of Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, respectively.
Table 3.
Number of antibiotics used per patient.
Table 4.
Duration of antibiotic therapy.
Fig 3.
Association between time-to-heal of diabetic foot ulcers and duration of antibiotic treatment.
Kruskal-Wallis p<0.001.
Table 5.
Length of stay in hospital.
Table 6.
Time-to-heal of diabetic foot ulcers.
Fig 4.
Association between time-to-heal of diabetic foot ulcers and final outcome.
p<0.02 by Kruskal-Wallis with * = p<0.05 by Dunn’s Multiple Comparison test.
Table 7.
Surgery and post-surgery outcome of patients with diabetic foot osteomyelitis.