[Surgical-drug therapy aspects of the treatment of patients with obliterating thromboangiitis of the lower limbs].

Standard operative interventions (thromboendarterectomy, (autovenous shunt) in patients with thromboangiitis obliterans of the lower limbs produce a poor effect. This is explained both by a poor initial condition of the draining channels and by advancement of the primary thromboangitic affection of the vascular wall in the zone of the intervention with its development into a stenotic-occlusive process. The use of some technical (operative) innovations, particularly postoperative arterial infusion of suspended forms of immunosuppresive agents (hydrocortisone, Kenalog), increased essentially the efficacy of restorative operations on the vessels with a high level of limb preservation and patency of the vessels which had been operated on.