[Plasmapheresis in the complex treatment of suppurative and septic diseases in diabetes mellitus].

Under analysis are data concerned with 21 patients with pyo-septic processes developed against the background of diabetes mellitus. The complex treatment included plasmapheresis. Its efficiency was estimated by the character of elimination of clinico-laboratory symptoms of endotoxemia, degree of correction of blood sugar, nonspecific resistance of the organism and cellular link of immunity. It was established that in most patients discrete plasmapheresis was 1,5-2 times quicker in elimination of intoxication and resulted in successful correction of the leukocyte index of intoxication, blood sugar and alterations in the system of immune homeostasis.