[Expediency of embolectomy in post-thrombotic occlusion of arteries of the legs].

Restorative operations in patients with acute embologenic arterial obstruction of extremities with terms of the occlusion of the vessels longer than 7 days are thought to be not perspective due to pronounced morphological alterations developing in the vessel wall. Reconstructive-restorative operations are most effective under such conditions but the possibility of them is low because of a severity of the main embologenic disease and the character of the occlusive injury of the vessel. The performance of the timely little-traumatic operation of embolectomy with the help of balloon catheters is a reliable method for prophylactics of postembolic lesions of the vessels.