Surgical correction of cerebral blood flow steal syndrome by aortic branches stenosis

: Results of surgical treatment of 119 patients with cerebral/coronary blood flow steal syndrome were analyzed. Vertebro-subclavian steal syndrome was registered in 91.5%. 80 patients were treated with the use of endovascular methods, open procedure was performed in 62 cases. Physiological blood flow was successfully reconstructed in 95.8%. Postoperative lethality was 5,1% after open operations, there were no deaths among patients, treated endoscopically. Bypass thrombosis was registered in 3.4% of patients treated by traditional method; restenosis or occlusion occurred after 34.3% of endovascular operations. Endovascular operations should be a method of choice in treatment of patients with severe occlusion of branches of aorta and cerebro-vascular insufficiency. By impossibility of subclavian artery or brachiocephal trunk recanalization with the use of endovascular techniques, open procedure should be performed.