Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2014
Abstract
Patients with diabetes mellitus suffer from digestive disorders significantly more often than non-diabetic population. All parts of the gastrointestinal tract can be affected in a diabetic patients, the disorders manifest in many different ways and the possibilities to consider in differential diagnostics are very wide.
Diabetic digestive disorders should be kept in mind mostly in patients who already manifest diabetic complications, patients with unsatisfactory long-term diabetes compensation and patients with otherwise unexplained dyspeptic disorders. The key prerequisite for successful therapy of diabetic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract is a good level of diabetes compensation.