To prevent osteomyelitis (bone marrow inflammation), attention must be paid to reducing individual risk factors.
Systemic risk factors
- Old people
- Newborns
- Nutrition
- Malnutrion (malnutrition)
- Consumption of stimulants
- Tobacco (smoking)
- Malignant neoplasms, unspecified.
- Diabetes mellitus (diabetes)
- Immune disorders, unspecified
- Hepatic insufficiency (liver weakness)
- Renal insufficiency (kidney weakness)
- Respiratory insufficiency (“respiratory weakness”).
- Medications: Immunosuppression due to chemotherapy
Local risk factors
- Extensive scarring
- Chronic lymphedema at the affected region
- Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)
- Macroangiopathy (vascular changes, in the large and larger arteries of the body).
- Neuropathy (collective term for many diseases of the peripheral nervous system).
- Radiation fibrosis
- Vasculitis (vascular inflammation) of small vessels.
