[Open surgical treatment of aneurysms and dissection of the thoracic and thoracoabdominal aorta].

Presented herein is experience in treating a total of 56 patients with pathology of the arch, descending and thoracoabdominal aorta from 1997 to 2017. Of these, 6 (11%) patients were diagnosed with a Crawford type I-II thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA), 20 (35%) patients with Crawford type III-IV TAAA, 18 (32%) were diagnosed as having an aortic arch aneurysm (AAA) and descending thoracic aortic aneurysm (DTAA), 12 (22%) had DeBakey type I and IIIb aortic dissection. To protect the visceral organs and spinal cord from ischaemia in 28 (50%) cases we used a temporal bypass from a synthetic vascular graft with zero porosity and measuring from 15 to 20 cm in diameter.

[Surgical treatment of total thrombosis of an abdominal aortic endograft].

Described in the article is a clinical case report regarding successful surgical treatment of total thrombosis of a stent graft in a high-risk surgical patient, having previously undergone endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm by means of a unilateral stent graft with suprarenal fixation of its crown and femorofemoral crossover bypass grafting. 5 months after the operation, the patient began complaining of rest pain in his right leg and trophic ulcers of the foot. The findings of MSCT angiography revealed total thrombosis of the stent graft, to be later on followed by operative intervention, i.

[Hybrid surgical treatment of a multilevel lesion of lower-limb arteries].

The study was aimed at assessing immediate postoperative and remote results of hybrid surgical treatment of patients with a multilevel lesion of lower-limb arteries. Described herein is the authors' experience with simultaneous hybrid surgical management of 48 patients, including 43 subjects with a multilevel lesion of arteries of the lower extremities. There were 40 men and 8 women, with the average age amounting to 65.

[Treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms in patients older than 70 years of age].

The investigation has shown that patients with the diagnosed abdominal aortic aneurysms must be operated, the age being not considered a contraindication to surgical treatment. Five years survival of the patients after resection of the abdominal aortic aneurysm and its prosthesis does not depend on the age and is higher than 70%, while the expectant management leads to rupture of the aneurysm and death of 70% of the patients. A medical algorithm has been developed allowing reduction of lethality of elderly patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms and less frequency of complications.

[Semiclosed endarterectomy of the aorto-femoral segment by Vollmar loops].

In 1996-1998 131 patients were observed who underwent semiclosed loop endarterectomy of the aorto-femoral segment by Vollmar loops. The control group consisted of 220 patients on whom the operations of uni- or bilateral aorto-femoral bypass with synthetic prostheses were made. The semiclosed loop endarterectomy was mainly fulfilled through the femoral access, the retroperitoneal access was used in 18.