Epidemiological and clinical morbidity of diabetic foot patients
Keywords:
DIABETIC FOOT, AMPUTATION, SURGICAL DEBRIDEMENT, CELLULITIS, RISK FOOT.Abstract
Introduction: foot problems are a threat to all patients with diabetes mellitus for all patients suffering from diabetes mellitus, with more than one million lower limb amputations more than one million lower limb amputations due to diabetes mellitus occur each year.
Objective: to characterize the diabetic foot diabetic foot in patients treated at the Guido Valadares National Hospital, Timor Leste, January 2019. Leste, from January 2019 to October 2022.
Methods: observational study, descriptive, cross-sectional, developed in patients with diabetic foot treated at the Hospital Nacional at Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares, Timor Leste, between 2019 and 2022. Using simple random probability sampling, a sample of 224 patients was selected who met the criteria for 224 patients who met the selection criteria. The application of interviews The application of interviews allowed the collection of information that led to the variables analyzed, descriptive statistical methods were used. Medical ethics were respected.
Results: the most frequent ages were 41-49 years with 33,48 %. Cellulitis predominated as the clinical form of presentation with 27,68 %. The 87,05 % of the patients were not referred in a timely manner to the risk foot consultation. The
most frequent complication was minor amputation. The most common surgical technique used was debridement and The most common surgical technique used was debridement, and the time for healing of residual ulcers was residual ulcers was between five-eight months with 58,48 %.
Conclusions: patients were demographically characterized, being skin and soft tissue infections and neuropathies the main forms of presentation. There was a low rate of timely referral to the Angiology/Vascular Surgery office, with patients attending when lesions were already present, being minor amputations the main complication.
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