In elderly patients, numerous factors subsidize the diagnostic challenge and high incidence of complications in this specific population, taking gangrenous cholecystitis as a critical example. The aim of this work is to report an unusual case of gangrenous choleystitis in an elderly diabetic women and its atypical clinical presentation. A 79-year-old female patient came to our observation; her ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the various risk factors and identify the characteristics of ischemic stroke in diabetic patients. METHODS A retrospective study carried out at King Fahd Hospital of the University in Al-Khobar, kingdom of Saudi Arabia from February 2010 to December 2015. Statistical analysis was performed by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 22.0, SPSS Inc, Chicag...

An epidemiological study was carried out to compare the prevalence of facial flushing in non-diabetics, patients with insulin dependent diabetes, and patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes in response to 40 ml sherry taken 12 hours after 250 mg chlorpropamide or placebo, administered double blind in randomised order. A flush after chlorpropamide but not placebo was reported by 6.2% of non...

BACKGROUND Diabetics are likely to receive advice from their physicians concerning lifestyle changes. To understand how much sodium is consumed by diabetics in Korea, we compared the average daily sodium intake between diabetics and non-diabetics after controlling for confounding factors. METHODS We obtained the sodium intake data for 13,957 individuals who participated in the Korean National...

Background: Ankle fractures in diabetics with secondary complications are more prone to postoperative complications than ankle fractures in diabetics without secondary complications. This study retrospectively compared the post injury complications of foot and ankle fractures in diabetics with and without secondary complications. Secondary complications of diabetes mellitus include peripheral a...

T here is mounting evidence to confirm that hypertension activates multiple pathophysiological processes that lead to deterioration of the cardiovascular system. Since the reduction of blood pressure (BP) is accompanied by beneficial effects on cardiovascular and renal outcome, especially in subjects with uncomplicated hypertension, it has been suggested that lower achieved BP values— close to ...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a known risk factor for tuberculosis (TB). Presently, little is known about the effect of DM on the clinical presentation of TB. The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical features of pulmonary TB in diabetics in our region. Methods: The present prospective observational study was carried out on all consecutive smear-positive pulmonary TB patients wi...

That patients with diabetes have less resistance to infection than do normal individuals is a fact met with in the every-day experience of the clinician. Particularly common in diabetics are staphylococcic and streptococcic infections of the skin, B. coli infections of the urinary tract, and tubercular infections of the lungs. To be sure, since the introduction of insulin in 1922 and of protami...