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[Acute abdomen and diabetic patients--difficulties of diagnosis and therapeutical decision]
H Doran1, T Pătraşcu, E Păcescu
1Clinica de Chirurgie Prof. I. Juvara, Spitalul Clinic Dr. I. Cantacuzino.
Abstract:
We present a retrospective study based on 50 diabetic patients with acute abdominal diseases. Usually, clinical features were not typical, without defining signs of acute abdomen, despite frequent severe anatomo-pathological forms (6 of 12 acute appendicitis were gangrenous, with generalised or localised peritonitis; 15 of 22 acute colecystitis were gangrenous). In diabetic patients, with metabolic disorders and cetoacidosis, positive diagnosis and the decision of laparotomy are difficult problems, often delated, with a negative influence on the evolutions and prognosis of these patients.
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