[Surgical treatment of occlusive lesions of the aorta and major arteries].

Operations were performed on 262 patients with occlusive lesions of the abdominal aorta and major arteries. In 41 patients a lateral venous autograft was applied after endarterectomy, in 42 an autovenous shunt was created after open endarterectomy, 26 patients underwent eversion endarterectomy. Prosthetic alloplasty of the aorta and major arteries was conducted on 63 patients and an allograft shunt was formed in 41. Lumbar sympathectomy was carried out on all patients as a rule after reconstructive-restorative operations. Nineteen patients died after the operation. Complications developed in the postoperative period in 41 patients. Marked improvement or the disappearance of the symptoms of the disease was noted in the immediate postoperative period in 231 patients (95%).