Abstract:
One of the complicated problems of traumatology in the treatment of patients withncalcaneal fractures is prevention of diabetes mellitus consequences. The work presents the analysis of treatment results of 72 patients with calcaneal fractures treated by means of surgical method at the Traumatological
Adult Department, of the Regional Clinical Hospital «Emergency Rescue Hospital» (ERH), Chernivtsi, for the period from 2010 to 2017. With the purpose to examine the efficacy of treatment
of calcaneal fractures all the patients were
distributed into three clinical groups, patients with
diabetes mellitus were isolated, and remote results
of treatment were compared. Therefore, analysis of
surgical treatment remote results of intra-articular
calcaneal fractures in patients suffering from
diabetes mellitus demonstrated that application of
closed reposition under electrical optical transducer
(EOT) control and fixation by means of wires
leads to 44,38% improvement of treatment results,
shortened terms of inability-to-work and disability.