REYE (RAY'S) SYNDROME: A PROBLEM EVERYONE SHOULD REMEMBER.

Reye syndrome is a rare but a very dangerous emergency that children and teenagers suffer. This threatening condition occurs during the treatment of fever in the clinical course of viral diseases with drugs containing acetylsalicylic acid and other salicylates. The high mortality rate from this disease is associated with the development of a rapidly progressing toxic encephalopathy and hepatic insufficiency.

[PECULIARITIES OF DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF AN ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN ELDERLY AND SENILE PATIENTS].

Peculiarities of clinical course, diagnosis and treatment of elderly patients for an acute pancreatitis were analyzed. There was established, that the clinical course of an acute pancreatitis is atypical with obscure symptoms. Late admittance to hospital, presence of concomitant diseases, low reactivity of the organism defense systems, morpho-functional changes in pancreatic gland complicate the early diagnosis.