Amputaciones de extremidades inferiores como complicación en pacientes con antecedentes de diabetes mellitus tipo 2, mayores de 40 años en el Hospital IESS Ceibos durante el periodo enero 2021 hasta diciembre 2021.

Abstract

This paper seeks to determine the frequency of lower extremity amputations as a complication in patients with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus. In this observational, retrospective, and cross-sectional study, we worked with a sample of 200 people selected by probabilistic sampling simple randomized to study them through their medical records taken from a population consisting of patients from the IESS Ceibos general hospital with a history of diabetes mellitus. The results indicate that 36% of the patients in this sample underwent an amputation due to a complication, either vascular or infectious, being mostly vascular and that there is a directly proportional relationship between blood glucose levels and the appearance of amputations as a complication in diabetic patients.