ea0037ep498 | Diabetes (complications & therapy) | ECE2015
Evranos Berna
, Idilman Ilkay
, Ipek Ali
, Polat Sefika Burcak
, Cakir Bekir
, Ersoy Reyhan
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an endocrine disease characterised by metabolic abnormalities and long-term complications. Achilles tendon (AT) play an important role in foot biomechanics. We aimed to investigate the effect of DM on the AT, which may contribute to the long-term complications in the foot–ankle complex.Materials and methods: 78 diabetic patients with (35 cases) or without (43 cases) diabetic foot ulcers were recruited from End...