diabetic angiopathies/fever

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic gastrectomy has emerged in recent years as an effective technique for the treatment of morbid obesity due to low mortality morbidity rates. Its complications include dehiscence suture line, and others such as splenic infarction. We discuss a case of splenic infarction after

OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of (99m)Tc-HMPAO-labeled white blood cells scintigraphy (RL-WBC scan) in a variety of infectious processes. Despite the technical difficulties of labeling WBCs without altering their viability/pathophysiologic integrity and the lengthy

METHODS A 45-year old man with diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension was transferred with fever of unknown origin, suspected diabetic angiopathy and sepsis. On admission the patient presented all signs of septic shock. Livid coloured injuries on his right hand and petechial bleeding in distal

Spontaneous muscle infarction in diabetic patients is a rare condition that usually occurs in those with advanced diabetic complications. There is a high prevalence of diabetic nephropathy and varying degrees of renal failure. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetics are at risk. The mean age at