[Optimization of organizational approaches to management of patients with atherosclerosis].

Despite undoubted achievements of modern cardiology in prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis, cardiologists, neurologists, and vascular surgeons are still facing severe stenotic atherosclerotic lesions in different vascular regions, both symptomatic and asymptomatic. As a rule hemodynamically significant stenoses of different locations are found after development of acute vascular events. In this regard, active detection of arterial stenoses localized in different areas just at primary contact of patients presenting with symptoms of ischemia of various locations with care providers appears to be crucial. Further monitoring of these stenoses is also important. The article is dedicated to innovative organizational approaches to provision of healthcare to patients suffering from circulatory system diseases that have contributed to improvement of demographic situation in Kuzbass.