[Evaluation of results of surgery (author's transl)]

A computerized documentation system for the evaluation of arterial reconstructive procedures has been in practical use within the Austrian Society for Vascular Surgery since 1969. Early and late results of 2103 operations preformed at the 1st Surgical Clinic of the University of Vienna for chronic occlusive disease of the lower extremities are analyzed for function of arterial reconstruction, amputation rate and mortality and the dependence of these on the preoperative stage and the localisation of the occlusion.