[Diabetic foot, a severe complication].

In this research project, the authors carried out a prospective descriptive study over a nine month period on 74 diabetic patients checked into the Vascular Surgery Ward at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital. The authors have compiled and analysed the diverse risk factors and variables which can bear an influence on this pathology; to do so, the authors collected the necessary data by means of a personal interview, medical records, analytical tests and readings as well as a direct inspection of the lesions. Among the results obtained, the authors emphasize the long average hospital stay, the poor control of their glycemia upon hospitalisation and the percentage of important ampulations these patients underwent; the authors were unable to corroborate other results present in articles consulted such as the relationship between the variables for years a patient had been suffering diabetes and the degree of the lesion on the Wagner scale.