Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of neuropathy worldwide. Non-retinal diabetic complications including oculomotor damage represent 1 to 3% of ocular manifestations of diabetes. The affected oculomotor nerves are essentially the external oculomotor nerve (VI), the common oculomotor nerve (III), and more rarely, the pathetic nerve (IV).Observation: We report the case of a patient referred to our department for additional management of r...

Introduction: The diabetic foot is a frequent complication that can be life-threatening for the diabetic patient. The risk of amputation is multiplied by 40 in the diabetic patient compared to the non-diabetic population. Our aims were to determine the prevalence of foot amputation in patients hospitalized for poorly controlled diabetes, and to determine the risk factors associated with amputation.Method: This is a cross-sectional analytical study, inclu...