Profile of patients submitted to amputation related to diabetes mellitus

Retrospective study that aimed at describing the clinic and socio-demographical characteristics of 141 individuals which were interned in Teaching Hospital of Universidade Federal do Triangulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil, who were submitted to amputations related to diabetes and compare the number of amputations considering the variables sex, age, co-morbidity, the type of treatment and then associated the number of amputations with the duration of internments and diagnosis. Data were collected from patient health records, totalizing 208 amputations. Major percentage of masculine individuals (58,9%), and a major occurrence of amputation among the elderly (70.2%); the cause: diabetic foot (35.7%); the most of patients (75.0%) went through internment at least twice; most frequent co-morbidity: arterial hypertension (74.0%); median in the number of amputations was two. It was not observed any significant difference between the variables of study.