RESUMO
We present a retrospective study of 195 diabetic patients how were hospitalized during the year 2002 and who had an evolution of the role of the different degenerative complications in the occurrence of different infections. The most common bacterial infections encountered were in the urinary tract [n =21], the soft tissue [n[degree] 21] and the bronchopulmonary tract [n =12]. In the soft issue infections, the foot was concerned in 40% of the cases. Urinary tract injections were more common in women [p<0.05]. The frequency of urinary tract infections, septicemia, and bronchopulmonary tract injections was not significantly linked to the existence of degenerative complications, exception the case of the .foot infections that were more frequent in patients with arterial or neuropathic disease of the lower e-extremities