ABSTRACT
Diabetic foot constitues major surgical hospitalization among diabetics. This is also responsible for majority of non-traumatic lower limb amputations. Eighty one diabetic patients, with foot complications were admitted in Surgical Department of El-Thoura Teaching Hospital in a period of one year [from January to December 2010]. This is a retrospective analysis of diabetic foot patients. The mean age of the patients, was 56 years [varying from 29 to 73 years]; with male to female ratio of 1.9:1. The duration of diabetes in these patients ranged from 4 to 21 years. The overall amputation rate was 33.3%; of which, minor amputations were 28.3% and major amputations were 4.9% [above or below knee amputations]. Poor health awareness, elderly age, male prepondarance apart from inadequate facilities in our environment, were the most common risk factors, which were responsible for amputations in our study