Peripheral Vascular Diseases

Abstract

SINCE 1949, when the last progress report was published,³² important advances have been made in the surgical treatment of peripheral vascular diseases, especially in the replacement of injured and diseased arteries by some type of blood-vessel graft. This does not mean that sympathetic neurectomy and other methods in use for many years have been supplanted, but that the restoration of continuity of a major artery with vascular grafts is a supplement to the older and more established procedures.Diseases of ArteriesPeripheral ArteriosclerosisThe problem of arteriosclerosis is an ever-growing one because of the increasing longevity of the general population. . . .