[Method of constrictive anastomosis].

A combined cuff suture was elaborated in the clinic for the formation of a functioning constrictor and prevention of suture incompetence in various anastomoses. The method of its application is discussed and the results of its testing in gastroduodeno- and gastrojejunostomy in animal experiments are shown. The cuff suture was used in the clinic in 129 patients, in operative management of obstruction of the hepaticocholedochus and biliodigestive anastomoses in 77, in formation of constrictor digestive anastomoses after resection of the stomach and gastrectomy in 42 patients, and in cystogastrostomy in one patient with favorable functional outcomes.

[Early clinical x-ray diagnosis of venous stasis in the lungs and pulmonary edema in acute myocardial infarct].

The authors have analysed 527 case histories of patients with acute myocardial infarction, examined clinico-roentgenologically in intensive care wards in order to detect early venous congestions and oedema in the lungs. X-ray symptoms of these states are given as obtained from the patient in horizontal position. Either degree of the left ventricular insufficiency with venous congestion of the lungs were detected in 71% of cases, including 32% of interstitial or alveolar pulmonary oedema.