PULMONARY CHANGES IN DIABETES-MELLITUS

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 44  (7) , 35-40
Abstract
Morphological examinations in the lungs in patients with diabetes mellitus of different degrees of severity and duration (28 autopsy observations) were carried out. Diabetic microangiopathy in the lungs involved capillaries of alveolar septa and arterioles and pleural arterioles, and is manifested by plasmorrhagia, insudation, thickening of basal membranes and hyalinosis of the vessels. Intraseptal nodules, granulomas in small artery walls, focal proteinosis also develop in the lungs, followed by sclerosis of the microcirculatory bed vessels and centrilobular emphysema. All these comprise a favorable background for the development of pneumonias which, along with pulmonary-cardiac insufficiency, are 1 of the most frequent causes of death of patients with diabetes mellitus.

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