ABSTRACT

Introduction Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease involving different segments of the human arterial system. Physicians have long noted the high frequency rate of “associated” atherosclerotic lesions in patients with a dominating clinical picture of one pool’s lesion.1-3 With accounts of the severe clinical state of patients with multifocal atherosclerosis, as well as of a high percentage of complications developing directly after surgical treatment, endovascular interventions became the standard practice for this category of patients.4