Radiological Modalities and Diabetes: A Review

Abstract

Diabetes has become a health care problem of increasing concern in the world as number of individuals with disease are on the rise over the past 2 decades. Imaging technologies are noninvasive tools which are currently receiving an increase significance to guiding physician in finding and therapeutic treatment of patients. Advanced imaging has upgraded our ability to assess the prospect of diabetics in patients. However, the capacity of imaging to detect the existence of osteomyelitis and myotitis does not automatically mean that it should be employ on a regular basis for tentative diagnosis of the diabetics. Diabetes is a multisystemic disease that exerts its effects through decrease insulin sensitivity causing various stages of metablilic conditions. The Pathogenesis of the complication related to diabetes is solely depended to duration of the disease with other health challenges which are refer to co-existing factors. The effects of long-standing effect of diabetes are usually associated with microvascular disease resulting to diabetic retinopathy nephropathy and cardiomyopathy. However, imaging performs an important part in diagnosis and follow-up of associated complications. This paper reviews the pathophysiology of diabetics, discuss the imaging appearance and provide detail review of the diagnostic image profile of patient with diabetics.