According to the recommendations of the Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC II) statement and the Russian guidelines for limb ischemia treatment (2010), reconstructive surgery is preferred for type D lesions. Patients with type C lesions can be managed by either stenting or bypass surgery. Despite the fact that aorta-femoral reconstructions long-term results are better than the diffuse aorta-iliac lesions endovascular treatment results, the surgery risk is significantly higher than the endovascular surgery risk regarding criteria of mortality, complications, and return to normal activity.~All reports of iliac arteries stenosis percutaneous angioplasty indicate that the primary technical and clinical success rate exceeds 90%. The figure reaches 100% in the case of local lesions. The technical success of iliac arteries long occlusions recanalization reaches 80-85%. Improvement of endovascular equipment designed for the total occlusions treatment increases technical success of recanalization. The TASC II materials summarize the several large studies results which present the data on the operated segment artery patency at the level of 70-81% within 5-8 years of follow up. A large number of authors note the actuality of aortic-iliac type C and D segment lesions endovascular treatment recommendations revision according to the TASC II.
According to the recommendations of the Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC II) statement and the Russian guidelines for limb ischemia treatment (2010), reconstructive surgery is preferred for type D lesions.