Analysis of Risk Factors for in-hospital Death in Elderly Patients with TEXAS Stage 3 and 4 Diabetic Foot Ulcers...

Chinese physicians developed the Tibial Transverse Transport (TTT) technique to treat diabetic foot ulcers with more than 90% effective rate. But this method still could not avoid the in-hospital death of patients. This study adopted a case-control study to explore the risk factors of in-hospital death in elderly patients with chronic ischemic diabetic foot after receiving TTT treatment.

A total of 54 patients were included in the study from January 1, 2017 to April 30, 2021, by being paired with the cases in case group with their demographic data and results of blood routine, liver and kidney function. There were nine patients in case group with six male and three male. Forty-five patients were selected in control group according to gender and diabetes type with 30 male and 15 female. Single factor logics regression analysis was used to explore the risk factors and odd ratios (OR) of in-hospital death in patients. The nomogram and decision curve analysis (DCA) had been done by R Studio software.

The study found that age, course of diabetic foot, small dense low-density Lipoprotein (smLDL), homocysteine (Hcy), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and prealbumin (PA) were risk factors for in-hospital death of patients. The smLDL had the highest risk. The nomogram showed that PA accounted for the largest proportion in the death risk factors. The results of DCA proved that above six risk factors were the risk factors for patients with TEXAS Stage 3 and 4 diabetic foot ulcers.

In the future diagnosis and TTT treatment for diabetic foot ulcers, doctors need to pay close attention to age, course of diabetic foot, smLDL, Hcy, SOD, and PA.