Introduction:

the diabetic foot assumed as a problem of health, however in the Service of Angiología and Vascular Surgery of the Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neo is it ignored which the characteristics of the patients are with this problem.

Objective:

to characterize the patients with diagnostic of foot diabetic assisted in this service during the 2016.

Method:

was carried out an observational, descriptive, and traverse study. All the patients were studied with foot diabetic (n=205).

Results:

the diabetic foot was more frequent in women, between the 61 and 70 years of age, with diabetes type 2 and more than 16 years of evolution of the illness. It was more common the neuro-infectious clinical form and it was high the percentage of patients amputated by this cause. Two patients died.

Conclusions:

The diabetic foot was more frequent in women with age between 61 and 70 years, it was more common the neuro-infectious clinical form and those they were carried out smaller amputations. The lethality in the patients with foot diabetic was low.

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