[Optimized approach to the surgical treatment of patients with large and giant postoperative ventral hernia].

Objective: To optimize surgical approach in patients with large and giant postoperative ventral hernias through an analysis of early and long-term results of modern techniques of hernia repair.

Material And Methods: There were 680 patients with postoperative ventral hernia over a 15-year period who underwent surgery in the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Care and Medical Unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (445 (65.4%) women, 235 (34.

[Efficiency of standard versus instrumental studies in detecting helminth eggs].

Testing confirmed that the applied brush washing methods developed in the 1970s could provide the adequate representativeness of a sample and full information on the actual presence of helminth eggs in the objects under study. An instrumental study was found to increase the probability of helminth egg detection by up to 3.1 times due to the representativeness of a sample, to reduce the labor- and time-consumption to have analysis results, as well as to unify a procedure for sanitary parasitological studies of washouts, and to enhance the efficiency of the equipment already used in parasitology laboratories.

[Results of parasitological passportization of sewage treatment works in the South Federal District].

Developed parasitological passports for sewage treatment works have been issued in the subjects of the Southern Federal District. Its some regions have areas inadequately covered by centralized water drainage. New waste treatment technologies and disinvasion agents have not been virtually introduced.

[The sanitary and parasitological characteristics of environmental objects in the south of Russia. Wastewaters and their precipitations].

The relative uniformity of helminthic eggs has been noted in the wastewaters of the Rostov Region, Krasnodar Territory, and the Republic ofAdygea. An ovogram is mainly presented by the eggs of Ascaris, Toxocaras, and whipworms. By taking into account incomplete dehelmintization during waste treatment, 5,000 to 1,080,000 helminth eggs may annually come into the water reservoirs where purified wastewaters are discharged, 33% remaining viable.

[Complications after Hartman's operation].

Results of treatment of 145 patients with acute diseases of colon's right half are analyzed. Hartman's operation was performed at all the patients: original Hartman's operation -- at 83 patients, left-sided hemicolectomy like Hartman's operation -- at 42, and combined Hartman's operation -- at 20. Various complications were seen at 51% cases; insufficiency of rectum distal stump and paracolostoma complications were the main of them.