Diabetes Mellitus — Pathology

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic disorders sharing the common phenotype of chronic hyperglycaemia, resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. For NEET PG, the pathology of DM is overwhelmingly a histology and morphology topic — islet changes (insulitis vs amyloid), and the chronic microvascular lesions of kidney, eye and nerve. The single highest-yield image you must recognise…