[Results of surgical treatment of coronary heart disease in patients with type II diabetes mellitus].

One hundred and twenty-eight patients after aorto-coronary bypass were studied, 75 of them had coronary heart disease in combination with type II diabetes mellitus (study group), 53 - coronary heart disease only (control group). The patients with diabetes were transferred on insulin before surgery, this therapy was continued during 2 weeks after surgery. Number of myocardial infarctions, degree of coronary arteries lesion, rate of complications in early postoperative period were compared in both groups. There were no significant differences. It is concluded that type II diabetes is not contraindication to aorto-coronary bypass.