https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2004.139

The diabetic hand

Vol. 56 No. 3 (2004)
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F. Schiavon
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C. Circhetta
L. Dani
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic condition characterized by persistent hyperglycaemia with resultant morbidity and mortality related to its microvascular and macrovascular complications. In addition diabetes is also associated with several musculoskeletal disorders of the hand, that can be debilitating. There is increased incidence of these abnormalities in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes compared with the general population, related to disease duration but not to the age or sex. Typical diabetes associated hand condition include the palmar flexor tenosynovitis, Dupuytren’s contracture, syndrome of limited joint mobility, carpal tunnel syndrome, Charcot arthropathy and reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Maintaining good glycaemic control by exercise, diet and drugs improves or prevents the development of these hand rheumatic condition. In this brief report we review the rational therapeutic approach to these disorders.

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Schiavon, F., Circhetta, C., & Dani, L. (2004). The diabetic hand. Reumatismo, 56(3), 139–142. https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2004.139

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