The value of administering intravenous antibiotics during haemodialysis in the treatment of diabetic foot infections.

Objective: People with diabetes who are on haemodialysis (HD) are at a high risk of diabetic foot infections (DFI) and related complications. We explored the value of treating DFI with intravenous (IV) antibiotics during HD.

Method: This was an observational study of consecutively treated patients with DFIs with IV antibiotics during HD.

Recalcitrant Foot Ulceration in a Patient With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

We describe the case of a middle-aged woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus who presented to the emergency department with diabetic ketoacidosis. An intravenous cannula was inserted into the veins of the dorsum of the right foot due to difficulty in obtaining intravenous access in the upper limb for managing diabetic ketoacidosis. Our patient developed edema and bullae on the dorsum of the right foot and received intravenous antibiotics for bullous cellulitis.

Pituitary hyperplasia with Sertoli cell-only and 47,XYY syndromes: an uncommon triad.

We report the case history of a 32-year-old man with no phenotypical abnormalities who presented with infertility. Semen analysis revealed azoospermia and testicular biopsy confirmed Sertoli cell-only (SCO) syndrome. Karyotyping revealed 47,XYY and pituitary hyperplasia was found on MRI pituitary.

Acute hot foot: Charcot neuroarthropathy or osteomyelitis? Untangling a diagnostic web.

A 55-year-old man with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes with microvascular and macrovascular complications presented with a 1-week history of painful erythematous swelling on the dorsum of the left foot with two areas of foot ulceration. Inflammatory markers were raised. MRI of the left foot revealed a soft tissue swelling on the dorsum of the left foot, marrow oedema and destruction of several small joints of the foot, indicating osteomyelitis and Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN).