Diabetes Mellitus( Five) : Long-term Complications of Diabetes

Diabetes Mellitus ( 5 ) : Long-term complications of diabetes

Long-term complications of diabetes

Organ / tissue affected by what happened Complications
Atherosclerotic plaques formed blood vessels and large arteries clog or being in the heart, brain, legs, and penis.
Walls of small blood vessels were damaged so that vessels can not normally transfer oxygen and poor circulation leak causing poor wound healing and can cause heart disease, stroke, gangrene of the feet and hands, impotence and infection
There was damage to the eyes of the small blood vessels of the retina Impaired vision and blindness can eventually occur
Kidney

    Thickening of the renal arteries
    Protein leak into the urine
    Normal blood is not screened

Poor renal function
Kidney failure
Nerve damage nerves because glucose is not metabolized normally and because of reduced blood flow

    Limb weakness that occurs suddenly or slowly
    Reduced taste, tingling and pain in hands and feet
    Chronic nerve damage

The autonomic nervous system damage to the nerves that control blood pressure and gastrointestinal blood pressure rise and fall

    Difficulty swallowing and changes in gastrointestinal function with an attack of diarrhea

Decreased skin blood flow to the skin and causing loss of feeling repetitive injuries

    Wounds, infections in (diabetic ulcers)
    Poor wound healing

Impaired blood white blood cell function Easy to infection, especially urinary tract infections and skin
Gluka connective tissue is not normally metabolized so thickened or contracted network

    Carpal tunnel syndrome Dupuytren’s contracture