Hacia una prevención primaria y secundaria del pie diabético. Semiología del pie / Toward a primary and secondary prevention for amputations of the feet in diabetic patientss

ABSTRACT

Chronic complications of diabetes are the most important cause of morbidity of the disease, which constitutes a major public health problem. Patientes with diabetes are more prone to develop premature atherosclerotic disease in the lower extremities, which leads to frequent hospitalizations for common lower extremity amputations... This report offers guidelines for the management of a foot, which is threatened, with loss of the blood supply due to impairment of the circulation of the lower limbs, in diabetic patients.