[Experiences in surgical management of acute arterial occlusions of the lower limb in the course of 20 years].

Introduction: In Hungary surgeons perform every year more then 2000 operations for treatment of acute arterial occlusion. Because of the advanced age and poor general condition of these patients, the postoperative mortality and complication rate is considerable.

Aim: Authors analyzed changes in the etiology and therapy of acute arterial occlusions of lower limb in the last 20 years in a retrospective study.

[Early results after aortoiliac reconstruction in our department in the past six years].

The authors analyze early postoperative results of 320 patients operated on because of aortoiliac occlusion. The mortality of the interventions was 4.1%, the proportion of reocclusions was 7.

[Role of extra-anatomical bypasses in the treatment of aorto-iliac occlusion].

In the last six years we have performed 468 operations because of aortoiliac occlusion or septic complications of these arteries. 410 (87.6%) of these operations were anatomical reconstructions, in 58 (12.

[Chronic pancreatitis combined with obliterative arterial disease].

We performed a prospective study at the 1st Surgical Department, Semmelweis University Budapest between 1996 and 2000, in which we examined the common occurrence of chronic pancreatitis and obstructive vascular disease in patients admitted to our department because of either of these illnesses. There were 37 patients suffering from both diseases, all are included in our trial. Control groups were set up of 50 consecutive chronic pancreatitis patients and 50 consecutive vascular patients.