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Abstract
SUMMARY
Diabetes mellitus is a growing global problem. One of the major
debilitating complications of diabetes is diabetic foot infection. Several risk
factors affecting diabetic foot infection include:- peripheral sensory
neuropathy, foot deformity, trauma and improperly fitted shoes, callus,
history of prior ulcers and amputation, prolonged elevated pressures,
uncontrolled hyperglycemia, duration of diabetes, chronic renal disease.
The present study was done to evaluate the role of MDCTA and color
Doppler in evaluation of vasculature in diabetic in patients with foot
infection.
The current study included 30 diabetic patients referred to Department
of Diagnostic Radiology and medical imaging , Tanta University Hospitals.
17 of the patients were males represent 57% , and 13 were females represent
43%, the age of these patients ranged between 40 and 80 years. All patients
will be subjected to Doppler ultrasonography and MDCT study.
All patients were type two diabetes mellitus with different disease
duration (4 months to 18 years) with a mean duration 10.13+_5.12, 22 were
hypertensive, 9 had coronary heart disease, smoking or history of smoking
was 12. All patients had uncontrolled hyperglycemia with mean level 262±
70 mg/dl.
Fourteen patients had a unilateral side affection and sixteen with
bilateral side affection .
The reported clinical presentation in the thirty patients includes rest
pain in six patients, intermittent claudication pain in twenty patients, minor
tissue loss ”ulceration” in ten patients, amputated limbs in three patients.