[Characteristics of microcirculation in patients with diabetic angiopathies]

The radionuclide technique was used to study regional microcirculation in 139 patients with diabetic angiopathies of the lower limbs. All the examined demonstrated impairment of the muscular bloodflow, that increased depending on the disease stage and diabetes mellitus standing. No differences were recorded in the degree of bloodflow impairment in the muscles of patients treated with sulfanilurea drugs and insulin. Comparison of the degree of changes in the muscular bloodflow in diabetic angiopathies of the lower limbs and atherosclerosis obliterans of lower limb vessels in subjects without diabetes mellitus demonstrated that microcirculation in the former group patients was affected to a greater measure. It is desirable that the complex of therapeutic measures should include drugs that improve microcirculation at the early stages of the management of patients with diabetic angiopathies of the lower limbs.