Diabetes Mellitus can be called as a disease of complications. That is why there is an anecdote that if you marry DM, the girl she will bring all the sisters of her namely neuropathy, nephropathy, retinopathy, cardiopathy and so on and so forth for you to marry. The present scenario in Diabetic practice revolves around how to prevent the PVD- peripheral vascular disease especially affecting the lower limbs.I have seen lot of my VIP patients when they are not able to be treated by me, ultimately ended in Amputation or death. Always it is a dictum in Diabetology that If foot is not having adequate blood supply then search for heart blood supply.That will prevent any unwanted cardiac event leading at times to death.
The prevention of PVD is possible provided there is adequate control of DM from the early days of Diagnosis along with the following measures. 1. Check regularly every three to…
