Revista de medicina y complicaciones diabéticas

Diabetes Mellitus: Beyond the Triopathy

Abstract

Anubhav Chauhan, Surat Singh, Yashwant Singh Parmar

When diabetes mellitus comes into question, the most common thing that strikes the mind of a physician is triopathy, cardiovascular status and secondary infections due to the immunosupressive state. Attention also needs to be paid to the examination of the oral cavity, auditory, complete ophthalmic, skin, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and muscular system in such patients, so that the work up of a diabetic patient becomes complete in all its aspects. A few noteworthy manifestations are discussed below.