MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF DIABETIC FOOT SVS WIFI

Abstract

Today we observe increasing rates in diabetes prevalence of diabetes, especially in industrialized countries where about 5–6% of the population have this disease. Trophic ulcer changes of tissues for diabetic foot in 70% of cases lead to high amputations, despite all ongoing efforts on decreasing percent of high amputations, progress in this field remains rather low. For high economic and social importance of diabetic foot syndrome, approach to treatment of this pathology has to be multidisciplinary and unite experts of various areas. Timely diagnosis and then effective and predicted treatment in patients with the ischemia threatening to a limb with a diabetic foot syndrome, depend on more exact stratification of patients. Now there are a number of classifications for a diabetic foot syndrome which include basic ideas of the main pathogenetic mechanisms on development of this serious complication, and consider serious affection of the peripheral nervous system, the peripheral arterial bed, assessment of the wound defect extent and evidence of infectious process. The detailed description of SVS WlFI classification offered in 2014 by Society of vascular surgeons is presented in this article.