[Endovascular methods of treatment for acute thromboses of lower limb arteries].

The article exemplifies that a group of patients presenting with acute thrombosis of lower- limb arteries appears to belong to the severest patient cohort, whose treatment remains a difficult task for a vascular surgeon, since the solution of this problem cannot be limited to thrombectomy alone, and in the overwhelming majority of cases should be completed by removing the cause of thrombogenesis, to put it more precisely, by a reconstructive vascular operation, for instance, thromboendarterectomy (bypass grafting, prosthetic repair reconstruction), or by an endovascular procedure. All this taken into consideration compels the investigators to search for safer, minimally invasive and at the same time efficient methods of treatment. Endovascular methods aimed at restoration of the arterial lumen meet these requirements to a considerable degree.