[Multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of patients with diabetic foot]

Diabetic foot (DF) is considered now the main cause of amputations of lower limbs. The analysis of the results of 266 percutaneous endovascular interventions (EV) performed during 2008-2012 in 245 patients with ischemic and neuroishemic DF was carried out. 76% of the patients underwent percutaneous balloon angioplasty (PBA), 24%--PBA + stenting. 91% of EV were technically successful. In 95% of the patients who achieved recovery of the main flow in the occluded arterial segment, clinical improvement was observed in the form of disappearance of the pain and start of the healing of ulcer-necrotic lesions of the foot. The main causes of technical failure (9%) were impossibility to pass through long calcified occlusions of infrainguinal arteries. The complication rate was 10.5%, major amputation--5.2%, mortality--0.8%. Long-term results were shown by the combined rate of amputation-free survival after 1, 3 and 5 years follow-up which made up respectively, 86%, 70% and 43%. EV is an effective treatment for patients with DF and an integrated multidisciplinary approach to achieve high limb salvage rates in the long-term period.