Intensive care for complicated diabetic foot

Abstract

The most serious complications of diabetes mellitus, which are a frequent cause of disability and mortality in patients, include lesions of the lower extremities. Diabetic foot syndrome is a complex of its anatomical and physiological changes that develops as a complication of diabetes and is due to diabetic neuropathy, angiopathy, osteoarthropathy and the occurrence of purulent-necrotic processes. This syndrome complicates the course of diabetes in almost 25% of patients. The risk of lower extremity gangrene in these patients is 20 times higher, and their amputation is performed 15–40 times more often than in the general population [5].