[Long-term study of angiologic patients with over 15 years of dispensary care with special reference to early manifesting angio-organopathies].

In our dispensary patients who were more than 15 years cared for angiologically a large proportion (33%) of patients is evident who fell ill already before the 40th year of age mostly under the clinical picture of an obliterating endangiitis. Contrary to the supposition that in these patients the so-called risk factors play an inferior role, after an observation period of more than 15 years a profile of risk factors was found which is similar to that of primary arteriosclerotics. Clearly less insignificantly in the younger group at first only one case of diabetes mellitus appeared. The patients with early manifested angioorganopathy are not less, possibly even earlier threatened by severe complications of the vascular disease on heart and brain. Moreover, the amputation rate and the appearance of a stage IV, despite in general more favourable courses, is greater in the younger patients than in the older ones.