Prevalence of deep venous incompetence and microvascular abnormalities in patients with diabetes mellitus.

The involvement of venous disease in the diabetic neuropathic foot is widely accepted. This article reports the result of prevalence of venous incompetence, impaired calf vein hemodynamics, and loss of microvascular control in the skin over the dorsum of the foot in an effort to document whether increased retrograde pressure caused by venous incompetence or loss of sympathetic regulation of the microcirculation is present in the diabetic patient who is at risk of foot disease. It was found that 64% and 70.