Diabetes Flashcards
Typ I Diabetes - Clinical Features
acute onset of
* polydipsia
* polyuria
* polyphagia
* weight loss
* Fatigue
Secondary enuresis
Ketoazidosis
Typ I Diabetes - Investigation
- Next step - urine dipstick
- Best step - random glucose 11.1mmol/l, TPO a/b, Tissue tranglutaminase a/b
Typ I Diabetes - Management
- admit for insulin therapy
- follow up: HbA1c every 3 month 7% or less)
- Vaccination: Pneumococcal, Influenza, dTpa
Typ II Diabetes - Clinical features
- Asymptomatic
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Acanthosis nigrans (neck, axilla)
- skin tags
- hirsutism
- recent skin/genital infection
- chronic fatigue
Typ II Diabetes - Investigation
- next step: random blood glucose equal or >11.1mmol/L
- best step – fasting blood glucose – equal or > 7.0 mmo/L. HbA1c equal or more than 6.5% (on two occasions).
- OGTT if uncertain level of blood glucose
Typ II Diabetes - Screening
- No Risk Factors every 3 from 40 years using AUSDRISK
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be screened annually with blood testing (FBG, RBG or HbA1c) from18 years
- With Risk Factors from 30 years every 3 years ( FBG or HbA1c)
- Impaired FG every 12 month ( FBG, HbA1c)
Typ II Diabetes -AUSDRISK score
AUSDRISK score Risk of developing type 2 diabetes within five years:
** ≤5 ** 1 in 100
** 6–8 ** 1 in 50
** 9–11 ** 1 in 30
** 12–15 ** 1 in 14
** 16–19 ** 1 in 7
** ≥20 ** 1 in 3
Typ II Diabetes - Managment
- Life-style modification. Consider hypoglycemic drugs
- follow up: HbA1c every 3 months (target equal or less than 7 %). Monitor late complications.
- Vaccination: Pneumococcal, Influenza, dTPA.
Typ II Diabetes- Riskfactors
- AUSDRISK score of ≥12
- all people with a history of a previous cardiovascular event (acute myocardial infarction
or stroke) - women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus
- women with polycystic ovary syndrome
- patients on antipsychotic drugs
Typ II Diabetes- Late complication
Autonomic neuropathy
- Postural hypotension (faints on standing, eating, or hot bath)
- Resting tachycardia
- Urine retention
- Erectile dysfunction
- Nocturnal diarrhoea
- Gastroparesis (impaired gastric emptying)
- Delayed or incomplete bladder emptying
- Loss of cardiac pain (silent ischaemia)
- Hypoglycemic unawareness
More complications seen in Diabetes mellitus
- Acute painful neuropathy: Burning pain in feet, shins, thigh.
- Mononeuritis multiplex:
✓ Cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, VII).
✓ Foot drop.
✓ Meralgia paresthetica.
✓ Tarsal tunnel syndrome. - Proximal motor neuropathy (Diabetic amyotrophy) -painful, asymmetrical muscle wasting of quadriceps andpelvic girdle. Pain typically worse at night.
- Diabetic cheiropathy (Prayer Sign)
- Dupuytren’s contracture
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Charcot joint
Secondary Causes
of Hyperglycemia:
- Diseases of Pancreas
(Pancreatitis,Neoplasia,Cystic fibrosis,Haemochromatosis) - Endocrinopathies
(Cushing, Acromegaly, Pheocromocytoma, Hyperthyroidism) - Drug induced
(antipsychotic, thiazid diuretics, oestrogen, GCS) - Genetic syndromes
(Turner, Down, Klinefelter)
Diabetic foot ulcer- Presentation
- Caused by peripheral neuropathy (80%), peripheral
- arterial disease (10%), deformity (Charcot foot).
- Painless, punched – out.
- Most common localisation - first metatarsal area, heel.
Diabetic foot ulcer - Investigation
Investigations:
* Blood glucose levels
* ABPI, +/- Duplex US (to rule out arterial disease).
* Microbiology swab (if signs of infection).
* X – ray of bone (if deep ulcer based on probe to bone)