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David G. Armstrong

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3 months

Diabetic Foot Ulcers JAMA

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Intersocietal PAD guidelines on the Diabetic Foot #ActAgainstAmputation #IWGDF - DF Blog

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11 months

Diabetic Foot Ulcers #JAMA #ActAgainstAmputation

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6 years

Common Pathway of Diabetic Foot Ulcer Occurence and Recurrence @NEJM

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How to do a 3 Minute Foot Exam

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6 years

Download: Comprehensive Diabetic Foot Exam (CDFE) Form and Pocket Chart

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4 years

Introducing the American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS). We're working to eliminate preventable amputation over the next generation. Join the family.

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6 years

Better diabetic foot disease care would save taxpayers billions

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The Most Expensive, Least Known Complication in Medicine or Surgery

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1 year

Having a wound doubles a person's chance of dying at 10 years Let's move from open to closed to remission

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5 years

How to do a 3 Minute Diabetic Foot Exam and #ActAgainstAmputation

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6 years

Veterans who receive prosthesis within 1 year are less likely to die at 3 years #diabeticfoot

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Prof. Joseph L. Mills to Become New Chief of Vascular Surgery @BCM_Surgery @bcmhouston @DrRosengart

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6 years

What you can't feel can kill you. #diabeticfoot #neuropathy

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2 years

Oral Is the New IV. Challenging Decades of Blood and Bone Infection Dogma: A Systematic Review @bradspellberg @lacuscmedcenter @usc

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6 years

Download the ADA's Diagnosis and Management of Diabetic Foot Complications @AmDiabetesAssn @APMA

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1 year

Meet Dr. Alexandria Armstrong, third-generation foot doctor ready to pay it forward! 👣👩‍⚕️ #ActAgainstAmputation

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David G. Armstrong

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4 years

4 out of 5 diabetes-related amputations are preventable. Join us starting November 1 to raise awareness through our #SaveThe4 selfie campaign. #EndAmputations #EndDiabetes @WoundsCanada @ALPSlimb

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6 years

No one who relies on insulin should have to wonder whether they can afford it. Join the ADA's call to action.

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6 years

Cost Effectiveness of Preventing Diabetic Foot Ulcers

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6 years

New! Updated Poster! To Prevent the Next #Footattack , Know Foot #CPR | DF Blog

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#Diabetes increases ones risk of mobility impairment by an astonishing 80%

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6 years

What you can't feel can kill you. #diabeticfoot

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6 years

Functional outcomes of transmetatarsal amputation: 77% walking in community at 1 year

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6 years

Diabetic Foot: A Toenail Sketch

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5 years

Every 1.2 seconds someone develops a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). Armstrong, Boulton, Bus, NEJM, 2017. Let's push back the clock. @apma #ActAgainstAmputation

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5 months

How to do a 3 Minute Diabetic Foot Exam and #ActAgainstAmputation

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6 years

1, 3 and 5 year survival after a diabetic foot ulcer is 80%, 69% and 29%

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5 years

An algorithm for diabetic foot osteomyelitis from the IDSA

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1 year

#Match2023 back to where it all started for her @UTHealthSA @ALPSlimb #ActAgainstAmputation

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1 year

Prof. David G. Armstrong, @USC , Becomes First Podiatric Surgeon to Lecture at National Academy of Sciences Event #EnvironmentalHealth #PrecisionHealth #Wearables

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6 years

Risk factors independently associated with #diabeticfoot ulcer recurrence @NEJM [link]]

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6 years

There is no such thing as a "little" diabetes. Just like as is no such thing as a "little" cancer.

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11 months

Check out this informative article on the revascularization options for chronic limb-threatening ischemia in diabetes. It discusses the implications from two recent trials. 📚🔬 #DiabetesResearch #VascularHealth

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9 years

Well doesn't that just say it all #Tucson @UofA http://t.co/tvZAabF95m

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1 year

Interdisciplinary Team Publishes Cutting-Edge Guide To Understanding And Managing Diabetic Foot Ulcers In Journal Of The American Medical Association @USC @KeckMedUSC @ResearchAtUSC

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4 years

Great Debate-- and it is great! Thou shalt prescribe IV antibiotics for Osteomyelitis in diabetes- moderated by Laura Shin, Featuring the inimitable @limbsandlungs and @BradSpellberg @DFCon #DFCONline

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6 years

Wound Healing + Amputation-Free Survival: Only 50% at 1 year for people with severe PAD

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2 years

Welcome to the next chapter @KECKSchool_USC , @TzeWoeiTan @usc_vascular #ActAgainstAmputation @KeckMedUSC @ALPSlimb @VascularSVS

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6 years

Do you prescribe thermometry for your diabetic foot patients? Here's a printable foot map and daily diary for them. @KeckMedUSC #FightOn #ActAgainstAmputation

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6 years

How to do a 3 Minute Foot Exam

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2 months

Functional outcomes of transmetatarsal amputation: 77% walking in community at 1 year

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6 years

High Dose Statins Reduce Amputation by 33% and Improve Survival by 26% in Peripheral Artery Disease Patients @CircAHA

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1 year

Good evening from #Antarctica

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6 years

Time is Tissue: The longer the delay before being seen by a team, the more likely that a wound will be severe

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5 months

These are the two key angiographic characteristics associated with the "renal foot" #DiabeticFoot #ActAgainstAmputation @KeckMedUSC

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6 years

What Everybody Ought to Know About The Diabetic Foot:

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4 years

Keep your eyes on your feet! 84% of recurrences of diabetic foot ulcers occur at a site other than the healed location. Nearly half of these are on the other foot. @KeckMedUSC @UMichMedicine

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@USCs Armstrong is First Podiatric Surgeon to Publish 500 Peer Reviewed Manuscripts, Reaching Landmark at 50 years old @KeckMedUSC @APMA

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5 years

Fellows wanted. Mentors available. The Lawrence B. Harkless Fellowship in Limb Preservation @USC is open for applicants

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2 years

Not only did @AeroMD co-chair a spectacular session, she gave a 10 minute tour de force on the state of play in PAD trials during #ToeandFlow Rounds at #VAM22 @VascularSVS @ALPSlimb

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6 years

Foot checks you can do at home yourself #DiabeticFoot #Diabetes

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4 years

“Can we preserve this limb?” meets “Should we preserve this limb?” WIFI + Functional Score #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot – DF Blog

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3 years

Let’s get this started! #DFCON21 #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot #ALPSlimb

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6 years

Diabetic Foot – 8th international symposium on the diabetic foot #ISDF2019

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11 months

Diabetic Foot Ulcers - go with the flow (chart) and #ActAgainstAmputation #JAMA

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4 years

New Data: Five year mortality and direct costs of care for people with diabetic foot complications are comparable to cancer #DiabeticFoot @USC @KeckMedUSC @APMA @VascularSVS @UCSFVascular

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4 years

How to do a 3 Minute Foot Exam - here’s a printable sheet

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4 years

1, 2 and 5 year survival after a diabetic foot ulcer is 80%, 69% and 29%

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David G. Armstrong

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4 years

What an inspiration! Mr. AK - part of our patient family- is thrilled to share this vid. He doesn’t let diabetes, dialysis, PAD + a new neuropathic tib fib fracture (w/next-level repair by SALSA’s Laura Shin) keep him down. Just keep moving + #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot

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4 years

Pretty good news at the end of a pretty rough year...To be funded on Christmas Day. Here's to working together to #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot @bijan_najafi @NIDDKgov @APMA @usc_vascular @usc @uscprovost @RanchoResearchI @BCM_Surgery @KeckMedUSC

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2 years

Having a wound immediately doubles one's chances of dying at 10 years compared with someone without diabetes #diabeticfoot

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6 years

Visualizing and Using WIFI Everyday (Wound, Ischemia, Foot Infection): Three Dynamic Rings of Risk – DF Blog

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6 years

Amputation as a Measure of Health Systems Performance: Worldwide Data from the OECD

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6 years

Transcutaneous oxygen- not ABI or toe pressure- is a predictor for short-term survival in people with diabetic foot ulcers (study) | DF Blog

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6 years

#ToeJam : Sweetness for the Diabetic Sole #WorldDiabetesDay

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Diabetic Foot Ulcers - your WIfI settings #ActAgainstAmputation #JAMA

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6 years

Building a Scalable Limb Preservation Program: 4 Steps to Success @KeckMedUSC @APMA #DiabeticFoot #ActAgainstAmputation

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PROMISE kept? Transcatheter Arterialization of Deep Veins in Chronic Limb- Threatening Ischemia @NEJM #ActAgainstAmputation @ALPSlimb

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6 years

Surgeon Armstrong Urges New Focus on Diabetic Foot Ulcers "in remission" in @NEJM and @AmDiabetesAssn studies

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4 years

Watch your bare feet-- whether or not it's hot outside! Whether from hot concrete or from a space heater, diabetes puts you at greater risk for burns and amputation.

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6 years

New England Journal of Medicine: Diabetic Foot Ulcers and their Recurrence

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5 years

An algorithm for diabetic foot osteomyelitis from the IDSA

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6 years

Download: The World Union of Wound Healing Society Position Statement on The Diabetic Foot- Healing and Remission

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7 years

The desert in bloom– writ small. #Tucson

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6 years

#Diabetes is Associated with a 70% increased Risk for Mobility Disability

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5 years

The Chronic Wound: A histologically hostile environment made more hospitable? Armstrong and Gurtner | Nature Reviews Endocrinology @USC @Stanford @APMA @WoundHeal @Nature @KeckMedUSC @RanchoResearchI

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6 years

Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Their Recurrence — @NEJM

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2 years

A full house in Malvern! #DiabeticFoot #ActAgainstAmputation @ALPSlimb

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6 years

The cost of #diabetes care has risen by 41% in the last 5 years alone #HIMSS17

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4 years

Lower Extremity Amputations 1990 to 2017 - where does your nation sit on the leaderboard? #ActAgainstAmputation #Diabeticfoot – DF Blog

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2 years

Behold the spartan, functional lair of @TzeWoeiTan @usc_vascular

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4 years

Now in press in @JVascSurg from @usc_vascular WIFI meets Function. "Can we preserve this limb?" meets "Should we preserve this limb?" #ActAgainstAmputation #ToeFlowandGo @USC @uscprovost

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1 year

Holy cow, @ProfNeilReeves . This was great. Completely unexpected. Here's to making a difference and paying it forward. #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot @ALPSlimb @USC @USC_vascular @ResearchatUSC @KECKSchool_USC @DeanMeltzer @jmills1955 @APMA @KeckMedUSC

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1 year

Standing ovation for @DGArmstrong as he receives the Karel Bakker award for diabetic foot healthcare, research, education, advocacy ……and much more! @IntSympDF #isdf2023

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#ToeandFlow #FlowSocks traversing Drake Passage and Antarctic waters! #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot @ALPSlimb @USC @USC_vascular @ResearchatUSC @KeckSchool_USC - Thanks @JillSommerset @jmills1955

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David G. Armstrong

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2 years

A pleasure to have @MassGeneral vascular surgeon @AnahitaDua @RanchoRehab today. Thanks to the @ALPSlimb visiting fellowship. The beginning of a great partnership to #ActAgainstAmputation @TzeWoeiTan Next stop: @KECKSchool_USC @LACUSCMedCenter

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1 year

BASIL-2 points towards endovascular-first revascularisation strategy in CLTI patients @VascularNews

BASIL-2 points towards endovascular-first revascularisation strategy in CLTI patients @VascularNews...

In the BASIL-2 (Bypass versus angioplasty for severe ischaemia of the leg) trial of 345 patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), a best endovascular treatment-first revascularisation...

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4 years

Pooled mortality rates following below knee amputation were 33.7%, 51.5%, 53%, 64.4%, and 80% at 1-, 2-, 3-, 5- and 10-year follow-up, respectively

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