[Experience of surgical treatment of patients with arterial aneurysms].

Incidence rate of arterial aneurysms is 3.4-4.6% of that of vascular diseases and has a tendency towards further increase.

[Forty years of experience with reconstructive operations for vasorenal hypertension].

Presented herein is an experience gained with 1356 reconstructions for vasorenal hypertension, performed at the RSCS, RAMS, over the period 1961 to 2001. The authors defined the criteria for the diagnosis of the given disease and the indications for surgical treatment. Also, the others demonstrate specific features of surgical treatment of patients presenting with different variants of renal artery lesion, provide the short- and long-term results of the main types of reconstructions accomplished for vasorenal hypertension, and emphasize the importance of the use of roentgenendovascular techniques.

[Surgery of some diaphragm diseases].

The authors analyze 127 rare diaphragm diseases. Among them, the rate of true diaphragmatic hernias does not exceed 1%. The congenital through diaphragm defects were encountered three times more often than false hernias, equally frequently on the left and on the right.

[Pulmonary artery embolism].

The authors have an experience in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary embolism in 194 patients. Much attention is paid to diagnosis of thrombosis of the deep veins, phlebography and duplex scanning as the most informative methods. Due to regular unspecific and specific prophylaxis of deep phlebothrombosis in operated patients, pulmonary artery embolism occurred only in 2 patients for 12 years.

[35 years of experience in reconstructive operations in surgery of vasorenal hypertension].

Reconstructive surgery was performed in 1148 patients with renal hypertension in the period from 1961 to 1996. Extracorporeal microsurgical correction with subsequent kidney autotransplantation was used in case of the lesions of the renal arteries branches. In 161 (14%) of the patients the result was unsatisfactory.

[Results of surgical treatment of chronic abdominal ischemia].

The immediate results of surgical treatment for chronic abdominal ischemia were studied in 112 patients. The late-term results were studied in follow-up periods of 6 months to 20 years in 105 (95.5%) patients treated by operation and in 45 patients who were not operated on.

[Progress in current vascular surgery].

Vascular surgery, one of the main fundamental parts of angiology, is an important rapidly developing clinical specialty. The author discusses the experience in many thousand operations in injuries, atherosclerosis, and thrombosis of arteries and veins in the light of new advancements in plastic microsurgery and the use of laser, ultrasound, glue, and various types of vascular sutures. He suggests organizing adequately equipped vascular surgery departments and teams of emergency vascular surgery, wider training of vascular surgeons++, and discusses new methods for the reconstruction of vessels and use of vascular prostheses.

[Problem of kidney transplantation (on the 25th anniversary of the first successful transplantation of the kidney in the USSR)].

The first successful transplantation of a kidney from an alive relative donor in the USSR was performed by B. V. Petrovsky at the All-Union Research Institute of Clinical and Experimental Surgery (now the All-Union Surgery Research Center, AMS, USSR) on April 15, 1965.