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An observational and descriptive study of case series was conducted in 14 patients with aortoiliac peripheral artery disease, operated through direct vascular procedures at the Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January 2010 to October 2012, to characterize them according to some clinical and surgical parameters and evaluate the effectiveness of the surgical treatment. Among the main results it was obtained that the total number were men over 50 years of age in whom the Doppler ultrasound was selected as imaging technique; all patients with occlusions were smokers and 50% of them underwent bypass surgery, whereas all patients with aneurysms had hypertension and 62.5% of them underwent vascular replacement surgery. It was concluded that occlusive aortoiliac peripheral artery disease has an increasingly early onset, abdominal aortic aneurysms are not diagnosed early, and angiography and CT studies are needed to decide the surgical treatment, and surgical parameters such as time of aortic clamping, diuresis during clamping, urine output and surgical time had no serious implications in the postoperative period or survival of patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]