[Prognosis in the treatment outcome of patients with occlusive atherosclerosis of the arteries of lower extremity arteries by evaluation of lipid metabolism].

The authors discuss the results of correlative analysis of the relative content of the main lipid classes in blood of central and regional venous blood flow with the results of treatment of 75 patients with atherosclerosis obliterans of the lower limb vessels in the stage of collateral circulation decompensation. In patients without anatomo-functional reserves of collateral circulation the amount of phospholipids in the venous blood of the affected limb was found to be significantly lower (by more than 22%) than that in blood collected from the vein in the cubital fossa. This regularity may serve as a criterion for prognosticating the results of treatment of patients in the stage of severe decompensation.