[War injuries of the arteries].

The experience with military vascular injuries in the recent war in Crotia is reviewed. From April 1991 to October 1995, 197 wounded persons with 231 injuries of arteries were admitted to the University Hospital Rebro. The most common injuries were of lower extremity arteries (54.

[Surgical treatment of war injuries of the veins].

Between April 1991 and December 1995, 118 patients were treated for wartime venous injuries. There were 108 (91.5%) venous injuries combined with arterial ones, and 52 (49%) with bone fractures.

Military vascular injuries in Croatia.

A single-centre experience of military vascular injuries in the recent conflict in Yugoslavia is reviewed. From 1 April to 13 December 1991, 1020 casualties were admitted to the Surgical Clinic at the Teaching Faculty of the University in Zagreb, Croatia. A total of 120 injured blood vessels in 76 patients were treated in the department of vascular surgery.

[War injuries of the blood vessels].

In this article the authors review their personal experience with shotgun injuries to the blood vessels. To date literature demonstrates a significant difference between the military injuries to the blood vessels versus the peacetime ones in the terms of healing. Injuries from high velocity missiles as well as blast injuries produce a massive damage of the tissue, muscles, bones, nerves and blood vessels.

[War injuries of the thorax].

Chest injuries are very common in war circumstances. Chest injury is commonly associated with other injuries of intrathoracic organs and development of shock, which has to be treated immediately. Our patients with war chest injuries are presented, along with our approach to the treatment of these injuries.

[Non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia].

Critical survey of functional anatomy of the upper mesenteric artery, patophysiology of the mesenteric ischemia, and the diagnostic procedures are assessed from the viewpoint of possibilities of operative correction and the author's hitherto experience in the upper mesenteric surgery. Comparison of diagnostic with operative management in two patients points to common causes of the disease, as well as to some of the preoperative misunderstandings. The indication for revascularization of the upper mesenteric artery and consequent amelioration of postoperative course in the patient with non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia is explained.

Interrenal coarctation of the abdominal aorta.

We report a case of congenital, segmental, hypoplastic interrenal abdominal aortic coarctation with inadequate collateral circulation. After preoperatively evaluating renal function and intraoperatively measuring vascular pressure, the coarctation was bridged with an aortico-aorta bypass; and an additional bypass graft was placed between the prosthesis and superior mesenteric artery. In this way, besides the successful surgical correction of coarctation, the inverse blood flow in the superior mesenteric artery was reversed to normal.

[Surgical reconstructive treatment of blood vessels in the popliteal region].

Severe occlusive disease frequently includes the popliteal artery and origin of the trifurcation vessels with reconstruction of one or more of the crural arteries. We made femorocrural bypass 23 times. Our indications for operation continue to be relief of pain or salvage of extremity.

[Blood vessels injuries in intra-articular and para-articular fractures].

The authors reviewed the problems of vascular injuries with fractures in the nearness of joints. They have pointed out the period from injuries to the operations. Particularly they accentuated importance of team work between bone and vascular surgeons.

[Anesthesia in surgery of the veins].

Patients with varicose complex of low extremities do not present any special problem in anaesthesiology. Method recommended is inhalational anaesthetic, eadly mobilisation of patient and infusion of low molecular dextran, during and immediately after operative procedure. During thrombectomy from deep venous system there is real danger of pulmonary embolism.