[Treatment of the diabetic foot in general surgery].

Experience of treatment of disorders of peripheral blood circulation in 120 patients with diabetes mellitus was summarized. Conservative treatment, conducted in 85 patients, included insulinization, preparations of sulfanilurea and glibenclamids, antibacterial therapy (beta-lactams, aminoglycosides, metronidazole) during 7-10 days, acidum acetylsalicylicum, trental, solcoseryl, vitamins. Amputation of lower extremity was done 35 patients, in 15 of them--on the hip level.

[Ways to improve the results of the treatment of acute obstruction of the aorta and major arteries of the lower extremities in middle-aged and elderly patients].

The authors treated acute arterial obstruction in 190 patients. A complex of diagnostic and therapeutic measures, including the establishment of indications for operative treatment, development of tactics, use of ++physico-technical methods (ultrasound study, rheography, electrocardiography, ++roentgeno-contrast angiography, ultra-violet blood irradiation, electromyostimulation) was developed. A positive result of treatment was obtained in 78.