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Diabetic Foot OrthoFracs

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Description: Diabetes is a systemic disease that affects the vascular, nervous, integumentary and immune systems.
Epidemiology At any one time, 3-4% of patients with DM have a foot ulcer. 15% develop a foot ulcer over their lifetime.
When a foot ulcer develops the chance of going on to amputation increases 8 fold.

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Added: Sun Sep 27 2009