[Lumbar sympathectomy in patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans of the lower extremities and diabetes mellitus]. / Poiasnichnaia simpatéktomiia u bol'nykh s obliteriruiushchim aterosklerozom arterii nizhnikh konechnostei i sakharnym diabetom.

ABSTRACT

In 72 patients with obliterative atherosclerosis of the arteries of the lower extremities and diabetes mellitus, the lumbar sympathectomy was performed. A good result was noted in 35 of them, amputation of the extremity was performed in 8 patients. Lumbar sympathectomy is indicated to the patients in initial stages of the disease.