ULCER LESIONS IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS: A CASE REPORT

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diseases in Western industrialized nations with an estimated 300 million people affected worldwide. Metabolic condition in diabetics leads to changes in almost all types of cells and organs in the body. Skin complications are among the most common. The fact that skin changes can precede diabetes mellitus, they have great diagnostic importance. Skin changes can also develop during diabetes mellitus, but sometimes they are related to internal organs and their complications or occur as a side effect of antidiabetic therapy. The worldwide prevalence in 2020 was 7.4% with an estimated 385 million affected adults and is expected to increase to 424 million by 2025. We present to you a case report of a 49-year-old patient, who comes for examination due to several ulcerous lesions on the right lower leg of different sizes that appeared two weeks ago, the lower leg is edematous and erythematous, in some places cicatrix from previous lesions can be observed. The patient gives information that she has diabetes mellitus, which is not adequately regulated, she was on tablet therapy for 10 years and for the last 10 years she has been on insulin therapy, but, despite this, the glycaemia is still inadequately regulated.