Daraie Morteza

Department of Internal Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Publications

• Original Article   
  Diagnostic Value of Serum Procalcitonin Level for Detecting Infected Diabetic Foot Ulcers
  Author(s): Kahe Efat, Daraie Morteza, Seyed Farshad Allameh*, Asadi Mehrnaz, Nakhjavani Manoochehr and Abdolahi Alireza
  
  Introduction: Differentiating infectious and non-infectious diabetic foot ulcers and determining its severity based on clinical finding is challenging for most physicians. In this study we tried to investigate diagnostic value of procalcitonin level for diabetic foot ulcers and compare it with other customary inflammatory biomarkers. Material and methods: fiftyseven diabetic patients with foot ulcers, who were intended in endocrinology clinic of Imam Khomeini hospital were selected and classified based on infectious foot ulcer (N=37) versus non-infectious ulcer (N=20). Serum levels of procalcitonin and White blood cell (WBC) count were measured concomitant with recording demographic data. The results were analyzed. Results: the mean age of the patients was 68.5 ± 4.9 years; the diabetes disease dura.. Read More»