[Results of therapeutic use of plasma- and erythrocytapheresis in patients with arterial thromboobliterating diseases of the extremities].

The article analyzes results of using methods of plasma- and plasmoerythrocytapheresis in 120 patients with occlusive injuries of main arteries of extremities. The efficiency of the methods used both as isolated ones and in combination with surgical procedures in patients with obliterating atherosclerosis, thromboangiitis, and aorto-arteritis of the extremity vessels and the Raynaud disease is estimated.

[A method of correction of hemorheological disorders in patients with thrombobliterating diseases of the peripheral arteries of the limbs].

Methods of plasm- and plasmoerythrocytapheresis in combination with hemodilution were used in 28 patients with thrombobliterating diseases of the extremity arteries. A conclusion is made of the necessary detection of hemorheological disturbances in this group of patients. The methods used were shown to be promising.

[Unresolved problems of the medical rehabilitation of arteriosclerosis obliterans patients].

Remote results of the treatment of 51 patients of creative age are followed. Of 47 patients alive till the end of the observation period, blood circulation was compensated in 41 patients. Complete rehabilitation was obtained in 51,1% of the patients and partial rehabilitation--in 14,9%.

[Surgical indications and surgical methods in post-traumatic management of the main arteries and nerves of upper extremities in late postraumatic period].

Reconstructive operations for nervous and vascular lesions of the upper extremities were carried out upon 37 cases within 2 to 46 months after trauma. The technic of operations and the results of the treatment are described.

[Use of polidez for treating patients with endarteritis obliterans of the lower extremities].

To treat patients with chronic arterial occlusion of the lower extremities, the authors used 3% solution of low molecular polyvinyl alcohol in 0.9% sodium chloride solution-polydese. The substance was injected intravenously and intraarterially in a dosage of 10 ml per k Kg of weight.