Endocrine Abstracts

Background and Aim: Recent international studies indicate a secular decrease in the proportion of patients with diabetes who undergo lower limb amputations (LLA), and the same trend is observed in the national quality indicator. The validity of electronic databases and quality indicators are limited by multiple discharges and precision of coding. Furthermore, amputation codes included in the quality indicator do not include all amputations. We therefore aim to investigate the ...

Background and Aim: Recent international studies indicate a secular decrease in the proportion of patients with diabetes who undergo lower limb amputations (LLA). However, our findings suggest that the proportion of diabetics among patients undergoing non-traumatic, non-cancer related lower limb amputations has increased over the past decades despite comprehensive preoperative investigations and other surgical interventions. To further explore the underlying reasons for this, ...