[Correction of the glicemia level in elderly and senile patients with diabetes mellitus, operated for purulent-necrotic foot lesion].

Basing on the analysis of surgical treatment experience of 685 elderly and senile patients with diabetes mellitus, suffering purulent-necrotic affection of foot, the authors admit possibility of the insulinotherapy abolition before the operation in patients with for the first time diagnosed diabetes type II or in those, who before hospitalization received preparations in tablets, while the signs of intoxication are absent (extended purulent process, humid gangrene) and initial level of glycemia no more than 10 mmol/l.