title: [Late results of surgical and conservative treatment for atheromatous ischemia of the lower limb in young patients].
abstract: The study was carried out within a multicenter program. Hundred fifty four patients under 40 years were treated (73 conservatively, and 81 surgically) for the atheromatous ischemia of the lower limbs in 14 Departments of Vascular Surgery in Poland within 5 years. The results of the treatment were evaluated according to the site of atheromatous lesions, type of surgery, and mainly according to the progress in pathologic process expressed by the degree of limb ischemia. It was found that surgery performed in the II period of the disease produces the best results. Surgery produces positively better results than conservative treatment in patients with the II period of the disease whereas both surgical and conservative therapy are ineffective in the III and IV degrees of ischemia. Sympathectomy may be effective in the occlusion of crural arteries even of the IV degree ischemia. In case of the II degree ischemia better results are produced by the operation of aorto-iliaco-femoral segment (transplantation or thrombendarterectomy) than that involving distal segment (sympathectomy) whereas the results of conservative therapy are better in peripheral and iliaco-femoral occlusion than those in aortofemoral and multisegmental arterial occlusion. An opinion of several authors on the specificity of atheromatous ischemia of the lower limbs in young patients was not confirmed.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Chirurgii Naczyń i Transplantacji AM, Bialymstoku.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Głowiński
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wołczyński
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Buzun
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kondracki
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ostapowicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000628:therapy*; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Odległe wyniki leczenia operacyjnego i zachowawczego miazdzycowego niedokrwienia kończyn dolnych u młodych chorych.