Klebsiella pneumoniae is the leading cause of liver abscess in diabetic patients in Taiwan. We report the case of a diabetic patient with a history of four episodes of K. pneumoniae liver abscess within 3 years. The patient later developed Streptococcus bovis bacteremia originating from a colon tumor with complications of endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and silent splenic abscess. Occult colon tum...

The pathogenesis of human diabetic neuropathy remains unclear. Mendenhall's syndrome is characterised by a mutation in the insulin receptor gene with consequent lifelong uncontrolled hyperglycaemia. The sural nerve biopsy from a patient with Mendenhall's syndrome showed a gross loss of myelinated fibres that was comparable with the degree of fibre loss in a case matched diabetic patient with es...

The patient who has a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease and experiences an unstable ankle fracture presents as a difficult case scenario for the treating physician. In addition, patients who have diabetes mellitus, along with the presence of multiple comorbidities, have been shown to have higher complication rates than patients who do no...

We report a case of sudden thigh pain from spontaneous quadriceps necrosis, also known as diabetic myonecrosis, in a 28-year-old patient with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. Diabetic muscle infarction is a rare end-organ complication seen in patients with poor glycemic control and advanced chronic microvascular complications. Proposed mechanisms involve atherosclerotic microvascular occlus...