[Complex health service for treatment of patients with diabetic foot syndrome]

Complex service for treatment for patients, suffering diabetic foot syndrome, was created on the base of Dnipropetrovskiy Regional Clinical Hospital with the objective for application of high technologies. Creation of such a service have permitted to improve the results of the patients treatment. Enhancement of the performance rate of small operations on the foot have permitted to increase by 34.4% the quantity of patients, in whom a supportive function of the foot was preserved, and to reduce the conduction rate of the lower extremity amputation on a hip level, preserving a knee joint, by 39.5%, what is very important for the prosthesis. Widespread propaganda among population and primary link of the health service permit to reveal and eliminate complications of diabetes mellitus on earlier stages.