Arteriopathy In Patients With Diabetes


Patients with diabetes who have a disorder peripheral arteries, often patients suffer from  Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, which in turn leads to a lack of sense and anesthesia in the limbs, which makes the symptoms of  Peripheral Ischaemia of the limp  are not clear or semi-hidden (due to neuropathy terminal) until you reach the advanced stages of disease leading to tissue death Gangrene or leg pain at rest (Rest Pain). Usually a man of ischemia leads to a pain in the leg while walking, forcing the patient to stop, and this is called  Claudication intermittent, but in patients with diabetes can be a presentation in the form of fatigue and exhaustion.


And here lies the importance of diagnosis of the situation early so as not to get diabetic gangrene leading to amputation of one of the parties or the death and the work of surveys necessary for the diagnosis, which does not rely on clinical examination only, but on the indicator or index, systolic blood pressure at the ankle to the systolic blood pressure when humerus Ankle Brachial Index ABI, and this index is calculated by measuring t Systolic Blood Pressure SBP. and normal is between 0.91 to 1.30, and less than 0.91 means that the patient has impairment of peripheral arteries and should intervene treatment.

Treatment is done in the absence of gangrene with Cilostazol brand name Pletal, which increases the blood supply to the limbs, and in the absence of response must be to intervene surgically to restore blood supply to the work of metaphor conducts blood to bypass the patient's artery as is the case of coronary heart using Saphenous Vein in men.

As well as the patient must take  Anti-Platelets, such as aspirin or Clopidogrel  Plavex brand name, which gives better results than aspirin.

And must be treated with peripheral arteriopathy, treat high blood pressure and blood fat and packs a strong and rigorous as they are the things that control the morbidity of more than control the level of sugar in the blood. Any high blood pressure and lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides) of the most important causes of morbidity in general arteries in the body and cause as well as meandering and intermittent ischemia of the limbs, stroke, heart attack and ischemic stroke, . And must also stop smoking and to follow a sports specialist determined to improve the blood flow of the limbs.

This should diabetics session to examine peripheral blood (with no symptom) after the age of forty and fifty with ABI, and if it was natural re-examination every 5 years (also with no symptom).



Last Update
4/29/2011 5:41:55 AM