MULTISPIRAL COMPUTER-TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY AS A METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CHRONIC OBLITERATIVE DISEASES OF THEARTERIES OF THE LOWER LIMBS
Occlusive vascular diseases of the lower extremities are a problem of great medical and social significance. The unsatisfactory state of treatment of obliterating diseases of the arteries of the lower extremities is largely due to the untimely diagnosis of this disease. The desire to improve the results of treatment of this pathology poses the task of clinical practice not only to timely detect vascular pathology, but also to accurately determine its degree, localization, prevalence and possible complications. Contrast multislice CT angiography has a number of advantages over other methods of radial vascular imaging, such as non-invasiveness, fast and high-quality imaging of the long arterial bed and the ability to evaluate it in various planes, etc. allows planning surgical and endovascular interventions, assessing their effectiveness. However, this method is not devoid of disadvantages, which include the impossibility of obtaining images of small vessels with a low blood flow velocity, the high importance of the image quality of the vessels from the movement of surrounding structures and the frequent occurrence of motion artifacts, a small area of anatomical coverage, the absence of bony landmarks and standardization of examination results.