[Experience in the clinical use of vein grafts from the umbilical cord of newborn infants for arterioplasty].

The work analyzes the first experience of clinical using the xenograft from the neonatal umbilical cord vein for different kinds of arterial plasty in chronic occlusion diseases. For a year 19 patients were operated. In most cases the femoropopliteal shunting or prosthetics above or under the knee joint was made. The observations continued from 3 till 13 months.