Acta Medica Medianae
Vol. 41
No 3, 2002
UDK 61
YU ISSN 0365-4478

 



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Miroslav Stojiljković
Surgical Clinic of the Clinic Center, Niš

POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS AND MORTALTY OF THE PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM THE DIABETES FOOT SYNDROME

Miroslav STOJILJKOVIĆ, and Dragoslav MILENKOVIĆ

Surgical Clinic of the Clinic Center, Niš and the Medical Center, Kruševac

The most frequent and most significant post-operative complications that were registered in 32 (31 %) of the serious diabetes patients and disabled were: more difficult stump healing (8%), more extensive necrosis (3%) and infections (20%). There were 12 examined who died wchich makes a hospital mortality of 11,42%. Two patients died after refusing to accept th proposed amputations. Two more patients went 73 home at their relatives' request or at their own personal request in the extremely serious state (ante fmem). The overall hospital mortality in" 105 examined for the given period of time was 15,23%.

Key words: Post-operative complications, mortality, diabetes foot syndrome