hand ischemia is a rare complication of diabetes and some other chronic vascular diseases. critical hand ischemia causes painful limbs and disability and requires urgent revascularization. there have been a few reports of successful trans-brachial percutaneous angioplasty in the upper extremity in the radial or ulnar artery. herein, we report the results of the endovascular treatment of a 68-ye...

conclusions anemia is a common complication of dm and is associated with duration of disease and microvascular complications. results a total of 93 patients (30.4%) had anemia including 46 (15.1%) with normochromic normocytic, 44 (14.4%) with hyperchromic microcytic, and 3 (1%) with hyperchromic macrocytic anemias. there was a positive correlation between duration of dm and anemia. microvascula...

presence of maternal diabetes mellitus (dm) during pregnancy has important consequences for both mother and child. to determine maternal and fetal/neonatal complications of gestational dm and compare them with pre-gestational dm, a prospective study was performed in 100 diabetic women delivered in our hospital from january 2001 to april 2002. pregnancy outcome in 27 women with gestational dm an...

diabetes mellitus (dm) is a chronic heterogeneous disorder and oxidative stress is a key participant in the development and progression of it and its complications. anti-oxidant status can affect vulnerability to oxidative damage, onset and progression of diabetes and diabetes complications. superoxide dismutase 2 (sod2) is one of the major antioxidant defense systems against free radicals. sod...

conclusions in critically ill patients, the symptoms of hypophosphatemia may not be apparent, but clinicians should be vigilant about this complication during therapy. in cases of severe symptoms (e.g., cardiopulmonary distress, anemia and thrombocytopenia, or rhabdomyolysis), phosphate therapy under close surveillance is warranted. introduction although asymptomatic hypophosphatemia is a commo...

to describe and compare the clinical outcome of infants born to mothers with gestational and pregestational diabetes mellitus, this study was conducted between january 2000 to january 2002 in tehran vali-e-- -asr hospital. among 4472 deliveries, we found 107 infants born to diabetic mothers out of whom 6 were twins. the prevalence of diabetes in total deliveries was 2.39%. mean age of gestation...

abstract objective: prevalence of tooth loss is higher among diabetic patients in comparison with non-diabetic patients. the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the relationship between socket blood sugar and post-extraction complications in type ii diabetic and non-diabetic patients. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 80 diabetic and 80 non-diabetic ...