Diabetes Mellitus: Atherosclerosis - Complications of Diabetic Atherosclerosis

Diabetes Mellitus: Atherosclerosis
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Persons with diabetes mellitus, either type I or type II, have early and accelerated atherosclerosis. The most serious complications of this are atherosclerotic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and renal disease. The most common cause of death with diabetes mellitus is myocardial infarction.

Peripheral vascular disease is a particular problem with diabetes mellitus and is made worse through the development of diabetic neuropathy, leading to propensity for injury.

1. Left anterior descending coronary artery, advanced atherosclerosis, gross.
2. Left anterior descending coronary artery, recent thrombus, microscopic.
3. Interventricular septum, recent myocardial infarction, gross.
4. Aortic atherosclerosis demonstrated in three aortas, gross.
5. Foot with previous healed transmetatarsal amputation and recent ulcer, gross.
6. Gangrenous necrosis and ulceration, lower extremity, gross.