[Reconstructive operations in suppurative and septic complications of vascular surgery]

Results of the preventive surgical treatment in infection of vascular prostheses were much better than those obtained after operations performed against the background of arrosive hemorrhage. The division of the operation into two steps--the extrafocal shunt at the first step and removal of the purulent prosthesis at the second step--results not only in better immediate results of the treatment of these complications, but also in reduced lethality in this group of patients. The traction mode of removal of the prosthesis is recommended to patients with a pronounced scarry process around the prosthesis.