Abstract
Diabetes-related foot disease has become a major cause of morbidity and participates in most non-traumatic limb amputations globally.

Majority of patients with diabetes mellitus and a foot ulcer have peripheral artery disease (PAD), which significantly increases the risk of adverse limb and cardiovascular events. The presence of microangiopathy in the PAD terrain further amplifies the risk of limb amputation. Preventive strategy, education of the patient and family members, identification, and stratification of diabetics at risk, multidisciplinary treatment and early artery revascularization of the affected limb are crucial in the fight against this pandemic (Tab. 1, Fig. 1, Ref. 24). Text in PDF www.lekarsky.herba.sk.
KEY WORDS: diabetes mellitus, diabetes-related foot disease, lower extremity artery disease.
Lek Obz 2024, 73 (6): 208-212

Denisa ČELOVSKÁ 1, Katarína JANEČKOVÁ 1, Tomáš PADÚCH 2, Miroslav MALÍK 3

1 I. interná klinika LF UK a UN Bratislava, prednostka doc. MUDr. S. Kiňová, PhD.
2 IV. chirurgická klinika LF UK a UN Bratislava, prednosta doc. MUDr. M. Vicián, PhD.
3 Rádiologická klinika LF UK a SZU a UN Bratislava, Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, prednosta MUDr. V. Javorka, PhD.