ABSTRACT
Experience of treatment of 2524 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) for the 1990-2001 yrs period was summarized. Of all the patients 48-52% are presenting the citizens of Darnitskiy and Kharkivskiy regions of city of Kyiv. For the 1990-1994 yrs period general lethality had constituted 7.5-9.1%, postoperative mortality--9.2-13.5%, while after 1996--4.3-1.9 and 5.4-1.1% accordingly. Improvement of results of treatment was promoted by conversion in 1996 to conduction of operative interventions using spinal or epidural anesthesia. From 2000 we are planning performance of two-, three- or multistage treatment of patients because there exists possibility to preserve the foot, using several stages to excise nonviable tissues and to perform plastic operations. Right from the moment when conversion to multistaged operations happened, new demands occurred for quality of local measures of struggle against infection and for application of technology for preservation of viability in the skin-free foot tissues. Analysis of the case records of 62 patients with DM, to whom in other medical institutions operation for purulent-necrotic affection of the foot was performed, witnesses the necessity of spreading of the experience of the specialized division work among surgeons and endocrinologists.
