Diabetic neuropathy

Primary Care Physician: The primary care physician can help the patient by monitoring the blood sugar level, which can slow the progression of the diabetes and help with the patient peripheral neuropathy and her walking difficulty since her primary physician already knows Betsey’s medical history and is more affordable for Betsey than going to a specialist. Moreover, the primary care physician can treat Betsey’s deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, which caused pain, sores and swelling…

outpatients - a cross-sectional hospital based survey in urban China. There are about six major categories in the Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus complication; those are cardiovascular conditions, cerebrovascular conditions, nephropathy, ocular lesions, neuropathy, and diabetic foot problems. Hypertension, angina, chronic heart failure, myocardial infarction, other related heart diseases, and peripheral vascular disease are the major cases on cardiovascular conditions which follows the Type-2 Diabetes…

non-diabetic population on hemodialysis. Sixty patients were asked to have a comprehensive foot check analysis. This was an observational study done in a satellite facility. A foot screening tool was used to identify risk factors associated with foot ulceration such as peripheral arterial disease, peripheral neuropathy, or foot pathology. Risk factors for ulcerations were recorded at baseline for all patients…

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Chief Complaint Followup of CVA and diabetic third nerve palsy. History Patient is a 57-year-old left-handed white male who presents with his wife for followup of two recent hospitalizations. He was initially hospitalized at July 25, 2015, when he went to bed feeling fine and got up at four in the morning and noted that there was something wrong with his left foot. He thought maybe he slept on it wrong. He went back to bed, but when he woke up again, it was still a problem. He did present…

As mentioned earlier, the vertebral column consists of five regions. These regions are cervical (neck), thoracic (upper and mid back), lumbar (lower back), sacral and coccyx. Some of the structures that would be affected by the incident are the intervertebral discs, due to the compression that was placed on the head. If the vertebral discs structure is severely compressed, the inner material, known as the nucleus pulposus, that is inside the discs could leak out and cause herniation. Herniation…

Build-up of glucose can cause damage to nerves and cause neuropathy, tingling sensations in the feet due to sciatica, loss of nerve function. Affecting the nervous system can be detrimental to the body’s functioning. Every body organ and system is correlated to nerves sending signals to the brain and maintaining…

administer the available outpatient cognitive assessment tools, which require functional vision to diagnose dementia. Case: A 62-year-old African-American woman with history of hypertension, type-2 diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy and legal blindness from Diabetic retinopathy presented for a routine evaluation. Patient was accompanied by her husband who expressed concerns that for the past six months, patient was being forgetful of instructions and had trouble remembering…

The patient will show up to his regular visit or appointment with his physician, and then will prescribe his regular medication. After that, the physician will refer the patient to the diabetic pharmacy clinic service for his medication .The patient will take an appointment for the pharmacy clinic by scheduling an appropriate timing for the patient and the pharmacist; the scheduling will be done by medical information management or diabetes register. The diabetes register is used to recall…

angina post myocardial infarction. His current complaints consist of painful neuropathy in bilateral lower extremities and painful urination related to prostatic hypertrophy. His current lab results indicate elevated microalbumin. His blood pressure is borderline elevated at 144/84. He has been trying to correct his blood pressure with diet and exercise but has not been successful due to the effects of his heart disease, neuropathy and arthritis. He is currently taking lisinopril, HCTZ,…