[The late results in the surgical treatment of patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans of the arteries of the lower extremities].

Long-term outcomes of surgical treatment were examined in 157 patients with atherosclerosis obliterans of lower extremity arteries. Complications of an atherosclerotic process are a basic cause of death in the patients in the long-term postoperative period. More than half (53.7%) the deaths were due to coronary heart disease. In a group of patients in whom coronary heart disease was not diagnosed prior to surgery, death from myocardial infarction was observed in 20.4% of cases during 5 years. Hypokinetic hemodynamics is a poor predictor of survival of patients with lower extremity artery atherosclerotic occlusions.