Artículos de revistas
Charcot foot: Skin temperature as a good clinical parameter for predicting disease outcome
Date
2012Registration in:
DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE, CLARE, v. 96, n. 2, supl. 1, Part 1, pp. E11-E14, MAY, 2012
0168-8227
10.1016/j.diabres.2011.12.029
Author
Moura-Neto, Arnaldo
Fernandes, Tulio Diniz
Zantut-Wittmann, Denise Engelbrecht
Trevisan, Rafael Ortiz
Sakaki, Marcos Hideyo
Santos, Alexandre Leme Godoy
Nery, Marcia
Parisi, Maria Candida Ribeiro
Institutions
Abstract
Twenty-eight diabetics presenting with acute Charcot foot were immobilized and the temperature difference between limbs measured at each month. All patients had monthly follow-up visits for a year and the relapse rate was zero. We found that skin temperature is a good parameter to ensure safe immobilization withdrawal. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.