[Surgical treatment of patients with generalized atherosclerosis of the aorta and its branches]

The article analyses experience accumulated since September 1988 by the Department of Vascular Surgery based on Nizhny Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital. The Department is equipped with apparatuses by means of which patients with generalized atherosclerotic lesions of the aorta and its branches can be examined to a full measure. The authors performed 287 operations on 205 patients with 3.9% mortality. The tactics of surgical treatment of patients with various atherosclerotic lesions of the aorta and its branches are analysed. It is concluded that multistage correction of the blood flow is most optimal in such patients.