The Management of Diabetic Neuropathic Joints

Abstract

NEUROPATHIC joints occur infrequently as a manifestation of diabetic neuritis. This is a report of two cases of Charcot joints occurring in diabetic patients in which the progress of the degenerative process seemed to be arrested after lumbar sympathectomy.Case ReportsCase 1. S. B. (No. 18500), a 31-year-old woman, developed diabetes in 1938 at the age of 18. Her maternal grandmother had diabetes. During the first 6 years of her disease her condition was poorly controlled. She was twice admitted to the hospital in acidosis. In May, 1944, she developed an infection of the right 5th toe that took . . .