[Clinical experience with Arwin (author's transl)]

Treatment of 52 cases with Arwin is reported. Convincing success was achieved in disorders of peripheral arterial blood flow in stage III (pain at rest), in which more than 80% of the patients treated became free from pain. In stage IV the success rate is barely 50%. A combination of thrombolysis with streptokinase and Arwin instead of heparin proved valuable as a primary approach in poor outflow conditions. In 4 out of 5 successful second lyses after reobliteration the vascular system remained patent under Arwin.