Contemporary Possibilities of Vascular Surgery

Overview

Contemporary vascular surgery relies on the progress in imaging techniques and on modern materials for vascularsubstitutes. The collaboration with radiodiagnosticians enabled the treatment of arterial thromboses by means offibrinolysis.Radiodiagnostics plays an important role also in the field of endovascular operations, namely percutanoustransluminal angioplasty, insertion of stents, and recently in the abdominal aorta aneurysms treatment by means ofstents. Long-lasting effects of such operations, namely those in the aorta, have not been fully established and theclassical reconstructive surgery has not lost its importance.

Key words:
arterial occlussion, aneurysms, diabetic foot, vascular reconstruction, thrombolysis, endovascularsurgery.