Case of the Month
Case of the month
Case # 1
48 yr old man with poorly controlled diabetes with coronary artery disease comes with two month history of non healing foot ulcer. On examination tendons are exposed and wound has a foul smelling discharge. He doesn’t complain of fever neither has any pain at ulcer site.
In the above case following questions need to be answered
- What is the diagnosis?
- What are the risk factors for developing this condition?
- What is the severity of illness?
- Is this chronic or acute condition?
- What are the likely organisms?
- How would you manage this patient?
