Limb Salvage Using Local Antibiotic Beads for Calcaneal Osteomyelitis With Multidrug-resistant Infection and Chronic Limb-threatening Ischemia
Danah Alhunayan, Ahmed Alsaleh, Mahmood Makhdoomi, Salma Khuraibet, Ali Alnaser, Razzaq Alhunayan · 2026
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Description
Danah Alhunayan and co-authors report saving a man's foot when bone infection, drug-resistant germs, and blocked arteries all struck at once. The patient, aged 53, had diabetes, kidney disease, and a heel bone infection that kept returning. Poor blood flow starved the wound of both immune cells and antibiotics given by vein. Their 2026 case report follows a long, staged effort to avoid amputation.
Care combined reopening the arteries, repeated cleaning of dead bone, germ-matched drugs, suction dressings, oxygen chamber sessions, and careful offloading of the heel. When the infection returned, the team carved the bone into a shallow dish and packed it with dissolving beads loaded with two antibiotics. The wound closed fully at fourteen months, with no new infection, and the man walks on his own in offloading shoes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Danah Alhunayan, Ahmed Alsaleh, Mahmood Makhdoomi, Salma Khuraibet, Ali Alnaser, Razzaq Alhunayan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 10 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |