[The characteristics of the therapeutic procedure in ophthalmological operations on diabetics].

The paper presents data about the influence of presurgical preparation, a special tactics of management on the day of operation and the first postoperative days on the incidence of complications, visual acuity and the term of the patient's stay in a specialized bed after cataract extraction and antiglaucomatous operations in patients of elderly and senile age, suffering from diabetes mellitus. It is substantiated that specialized ophthalmological hospitals of a surgical profile should have a therapist on staff with obligatory endocrinologic preparation.