Treatment of advanced peripheral arterial insufficiency in the elderly.

Peripheral arterial insufficiency appears at all stages regardless of the patient age; however its appearance is most common in the elderly in which cases it mostly appears as stage described by Fontaine as stage III or IV The most com- mon cause of peripheral arterial insufficiency is atherosclerotic degeneration, and is remarkably often accompanied by the diabetes. In the years 2012 and 2013 department of vascular surgery, University Hospital Rijeka admitted 169 patients older than 70 with peripheral arterial insufficiency of type Fontaine III and IV That number represents 68.8% of total number of patients admitted for peripheral arterial insufficiency.