[Review of materials on vascular surgery presented at the Congress of the International Society of Surgery (Helsinki, Finland, August 25-29, 2013)].

The article contains a brief review of the materials concerning vascular surgery presented at the Congress of the International Society of Surgery held on August 25-29, 2013 in Helsinki (Finland), showing the outcomes of open and endovascular operations performed in patients presenting with abdominal aortic aneurysms, lower-limb critical ischaemia, obtained in various clinics. This is followed by determining the prospects of further increasing efficiency of surgical methods of treatment of vascular diseases.