ADVANCES IN VASCULAR SURGERY IN CHINA

This article presents some main advances in the management of arterial and venous diseases during the recent 35 years. In the treatment of arterial diseases, the manufacture and application of pure silk and dacron prosthesis in the late fifties has enlarged the scope of surgery for aneurysms. Even resections of huge complicated thoracoabdominal aneurysms have been performed with good results since the eighties. Embolectomy by means of a Fogarty catheter has been used with success since 1970. As to chronic arteriosus obliterans, including thromboangitis obliterans and arteriosclerosis, omental graft (1982) and staged arterio-venous reversal (1986) may produce good results. In the treatment of aortitis, nephrectomy is good for cases involving unilateral renal artery. Bypass, endarterectomy, patch graft or angioplasty for those cases with stenosis at the beginning of the main branches are very beneficial. In the management of portal hypertension, splenorenal shunt has been widely adopted since 1952. In 1964 pericardiac devasculization was first used, and in recent years there was an increasing trend in its practice. As to venous diseases in the lower extremity, a classification based on whether the lesion involves venous reflux or venous return disturbance has been suggested in recent years. Venous reflux diseases with valvular insuffciency of the saphenous vein has an incidence of 14%, valvular insufficiency of the deep femoral vein is even more common with an incidence as high as 55%. The operations for each category are mentioned. Diseases of venous return disturbance are mainly the sequel of thrombosis of the deep vein. The are two types i. e. whole extremity and segmental.

ADVANCES IN VASCULAR SURGERY IN CHINA

This article presents some main advances in the management of arterial and venous diseases during the recent 35 years. In the treatment of arterial diseases, the manufacture and application of pure silk and dacron prosthesis in the late fifties has enlarged the scope of surgery for aneurysms. Even resections of huge complicated thoracoabdominal aneurysms have been performed with good results since the eighties. Embolectomy by means of a Fogarty catheter has been used with success since 1970. As to chronic arteriosus obliterans, including thromboangitis obliterans and arteriosclerosis, omental graft (1982) and staged arterio-venous reversal (1986) may produce good results. In the treatment of aortitis, nephrectomy is good for cases involving unilateral renal artery. Bypass, endarterectomy, patch graft or angioplasty for those cases with stenosis at the beginning of the main branches are very beneficial. In the management of portal hypertension, splenorenal shunt has been widely adopted since 1952. In 1964 pericardiac devasculization was first used, and in recent years there was an increasing trend in its practice. As to venous diseases in the lower extremity, a classification based on whether the lesion involves venous reflux or venous return disturbance has been suggested in recent years. Venous reflux diseases with valvular insuffciency of the saphenous vein has an incidence of 14%, valvular insufficiency of the deep femoral vein is even more common with an incidence as high as 55%. The operations for each category are mentioned. Diseases of venous return disturbance are mainly the sequel of thrombosis of the deep vein. The are two types i. e. whole extremity and segmental.