THE COMPLICATIONS OF THE DIABETIC FOOT RAPORTED TO THE DEGREE OF CHRONIC LOWER LIMB ISCHEMIA
Abstract:
Diabetic arteriopathy of the lower limbs is a disease which implies serious therapeutic
difficulties in the medical practice. This study aims to illustrate the defining features of the chronic
arterial obstructive disease in patients with diabetes compared with non-diabetic patients. We have
studied a number of 175 patients who underwent surgical intervention in the Surgery Clinic I Sibiu,
during 2005 - 2011 and we divided them in two groups: the study group, patients with arterial
obstructive disease and diabetes mellitus (81 patients) and the control group, arterial obstructive
disease without diabetes (94 patients). Patients with diabetes mellitus had an average hospitalization
period of 31 days whereas patients with chronic ischemia had 27 days. Amputations were more frequent
in the diabetic patients group. Patients with complicated diabetic foot included in the study had a more
difficult evolution compared to those with chronic ischemia of lower limbs.
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