Research Article
Amputations of Lower Limb in Subjects with Diabetes Mellitus: Reasons and 30-Day Mortality
Table 2
Thirty-day mortality according to diagnosis at discharge categories in patients with and without diabetes.
| | Category | Patients with diabetes | Patients without diabetes | | Number of amputations | Number of deaths (%) | Number of amputations | Number of deaths (%) |
| | Vascular | 16515 | 1383 (8.37) | 14785 | 1421 (9.61) | | Bone/joint infection | 3030 | 105 (3.46) | 2533 | 66 (2.6) | | Soft tissue infection | 7918 | 47 (5.27) | 3871 | 275 (7.1) | | Ulceration | 1670 | 111 (6.64) | 868 | 79 (9.1) | | Trauma (including burns and frostbites) | 334 | 20 (5.99) | 3470 | 91 (2.62) | | Neoplasms | 262 | 11 (4.2) | 847 | 19 (2.24) | | Acute | 450 | 99 (22.0) | 700 | 147 (21.0) | | Sepsis | 100 | 34 (34.0) | 69 | 20 (28.99) | | Others | 948 | 104 (10.97) | 4393 | 149 (3.39) | | Diabetes | 34433 | 1635 (4.74) | — | — |
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