Effect of lower limb critical ischaemia on course of wound process and incidence rate of high amputations in pyonecrotic forms of diabetic foot syndrome

Tarakanova O.E., Mukhin A.S., Smirnov N.F., Kudykin M.N.

Chair of Surgery State Educational Facility for Advanced Medical Training, Nizhniy Novgorod State Medical Academy under the RF Ministry of Public Health and Social Development, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

Analysed herein are therapeutic outcomes in a total of 417 patients presenting with pyonecrotic complications of diabetic foot syndrome. The obtained findings suggest an unfavourable course of the wound process and increased risk of high amputations in the presence of lower limb critical ischaemia.

KEY WORDS: diabetic foot, critical ischaemia, amputation.

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