[WAYS OF IMPROVEMENT OF LIFE QUALITY OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING THYROID SURGERY].

The authors analyzed quality of life before and after thyroid surgery in 350 patients. The article suggested the ways of improving of surgical treatment by developing some technical details. Indications to operation and choice of the operation volume were specified by morphological diagnostics refinement.

[Optimization of surgical treatment of patients with complicated forms of the diabetic foot].

An analysis of results of complex treatment of 160 patients with purulent complications of the diabetic foot has allowed optimization of the decision on surgical strategy using the proposed formula depending on the severity of the general state of the patients. The decision on the surgical strategy of treatment taking into account the indices of the severity of the disease led to 2.5 times less number of "great" amputations and 29% shorter duration of the patients' staying at the hospital.

[The course and surgical treatment of gastroduodenal ulcer in patients with diabetes mellitus].

The work deals with the features of the course of gastric and duodenal ulcers in diabetes mellitus and the frequency and pattern of the complications. The authors recommend criteria for preparation for surgical treatment, methods for compensation of the disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism, and the methods of postoperative management of such patients. The late-term results and analysis of treatment are discussed briefly.

[Treatment of complications arising during purulent infections in diabetic patients].

Of the 256 patients with diabetes mellitus and purulent surgical infection, in 20.7%, the complications were revealed: those caused by the course of diabetes mellitus, systemic, caused by progressing of the purulent infection and sepsis. The factors of risk of the development of these complications are considered, the characteristics of immune and hormonal status of the patients is given.