Abstract
Diabetic foot syndrome represents a severe complication of diabetes mellitus; the term is used to describe destructive affection of foot tissues resulting often in serious consequences. The most important risk factors resulting in the defect are diabetic neuropathy and ischemia of leg.
Patients with ischemic disease of lower extremities that is accompanied by infection fall into the most severe group. Case presents the patient with diabetic foot syndrome of ischemic etiology whose functioning leg was preserved thanks to early, aggressive and complex treatment (including revascularization, antibiotics, local treatment of defect, other methods supporting peripheral circulation and treatment oi diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and hypertension).