[The role of vascular surgery in the multidisciplinary approach to the diabetic foot syndrome].

The efficacy of the percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty in patients with critical ischemia of the lower limbs and diabetes mellitus was analyzed. The study included 102 patients with septic complications of the diabetic foot syndrome. The main group consisted of 37 patients, who received both the traditional conservative therapy and the endovascular angioplasty.

[Prevention of complications after surgery in patients with upper limbs' lymphedema].

The results of surgical treatment of patients with the fourth stage of the upper limbs' lymphedema was studied. Of all 170 patients with lymphedema, 16 (9.4%) had the fourth stage of the disease.

[Morphological criteria of the state of the microcirculation and the lymphatic drainage in the synovial membrane of the knee joint under normal and pathological conditions].

Using transmission electron microscopy, the ultrastructural organization of the endothelium of blood and lymphatic capillaries and the structures of the interstitium of synovial membrane were studied in the patients with osteoarthrosis of a knee joint of I-II and II-III stages. Material, obtained from the patients with traumatic lesions of the knee joint components, was used as a control. The structural signs indicative of the microcirculation and lymphatic drainage disturbances were detected in the synovial membrane and were most expressed in II-III stages of osteoarthrosis.

[Lymphotropic therapy for acute purulent odontogenic jaw periostitis].

The structure of the gingival mucosa was studied by optic microscopy in patients with acute purulent odontogenic maxillary periostitis treated traditionally and receiving lymphotropic therapy. Lymphotropic administration of the antibiotic during 2 days resulted in less pronounced dilatation of the interstitial spaces and lymph vessels adjacent to the molars and higher counts of lymphocytes, monocytes, and macrophages. This indicated high efficiency of lymphotropic therapy of acute purulent maxillary periostitis for molars.

[Adsorption therapy for acute suppurative periostitis of the jaw].

Capillaries and tissue leukocyte cytograms in soft gingival tissues were examined by optic microscopy in patients with acute purulent periostitis of the jaws treated by different methods. Disorders in the lymph outflow from gingival tissues were detected, which were due to dilatation of the lymph vessels and interstitial spaces in the mucosal lamina propria and stasis with leukocyte aggregation and purulent clots in the lumina of many lymph vessels. Less pronounced dilatation of interstitial spaces and lymph vessels, higher counts of lymphocytes, monocytes, and macrophages in the tissues of the gingival mucosa lamina propria, observed 2 days after the beginning of adsorption therapy of the subperiosteal abscess cavity, indicate that this therapy is more effective in acute purulent periostitis than traditional treatment.