Case Study: Infections in Diabetes Mellitus
Abstract
In Brief
Acute care for patients with diabetes varies greatly depending on the nature of the patients’ primary illness and physical condition during hospitalization. The following two case studies review common considerations when treating 1) diabetic patients who develop infections; and 2) hyperglycemic inpatients who have had an acute myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accident.
Footnotes
Dennis S. Schaberg, MD, FACP, is a professor of internal medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, and John M. Norwood, MD, is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis.
- American Diabetes Association
In this Issue
January 2002, 15(1)
