Open AccessDiabetic Muscle Infarction: A Rare Complication of a Common Disease
Author(s) -
Shaza Samargandy,
Amani Alhozali
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
saudi journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1658-5763
pISSN - 1658-7367
DOI - 10.32790/sjim.2019.9.1.8
Subject(s) - complication , medicine , diabetes mellitus , disease , infarction , surgery , intensive care medicine , myocardial infarction , endocrinology
Diabetes mellitus is a multifaceted metabolic disease with several serious complications. Diabetic muscle infarction is a rare musculoskeletal diabetic complication that can be frequently misdiagnosed as it shares clinical manifestations with multiple other more common clinical disorders. We present in this report, a case of diabetic myonecrosis with brief discussion about this unusual complication along with its management and expected outcomes.