title: Our experience of surgery for innominate and subclavian lesions.
abstract: Since 1965 we have performed 67 operations to correct a subclavian steal-syndrom. Mortality after transthoracic correction in 30 patients was 6.7%, but we lost no patient after 37 extrathoracic reconstructions. The long-term results in these reconstructive procedures were excellent with a patency of 94.7% from the forth through the fifth year after transthoracic approach. Over 90% of the patients were asymptomatic or improved.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016122:Brachiocephalic Trunk / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D013349:Subclavian Steal Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality