Functional Tests of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Normal Subjects and in Patients with Diastasis and Oblique Inguinal Hernias in a Pilot Study.

Objectives: To identify typical patterns of abdominal wall muscle activation in patients with diastasis recti and inguinal hernias compared to controls during the Valsalva maneuver, voluntary coughing, and physical activity.

Methods: The study included 15 subjects: 5 with diastasis recti, 4 with inguinal hernias, and 6 healthy controls. The functions of rectus abdominis (RA) and external oblique (OE) muscles were measured by surface electromyography (sEMG).

[Postoperative hematomas after inguinal hernia repair].

It was done the analysis of the results of 625 open and endoscopic prosthetic and autoplastic hernia repairs made in a planned and emergency basis during the period from 2005 to 2012. The autoplastic group was divided into three subgroups: the plastic by Bassini, Shouldays and Postempski. The prosthesis group was divided into open and endoscopic subgroups.

[Experimental investigation of efficacy and safety of different methods of endoscopic hemostasis].

Treatment of ulcerative gastroduodenal bleedings remains one of the most pressing problems in urgent surgery. Available methods of endoscopic hemostasis are not fully eligible to safety requirements, effectiveness and reliability. In this connection persist high levels of general and postoperative mortality in our country and around the world.

[Minimally invasive surgical accesses for the treatment of the acute cholecystitis].

The 3-year experience minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of the acute cholecystitis was summarized. Criteria of the access choice and terms of surgery were substantiated. Treatment tactics of the acute cholecystits with the use of minimally invasive surgery were outlined, which allowed to decrease the rate of unreasonable "open" operations.

[The postoperative ventral hernia treatment choice in dependence of operative-anesthesiologic risk rate].

The surgical treatment of postoperative ventral hernias (PVH) in patients with high operative-anesthesiologic risk (OAR) still remains a problem. The results of PVH treatment in 150 patients with different degrees of OAR are analyzed in the paper. Autoplastic operations and explantation of synthetic prostheses were performed.

[Stenotic bleeding pyloric ulcers].

Treatment results in 110 patients with stenotic bleeding pyloroduodenal ulcers (SBPU) were analyzed. Correlation dependence of hemorrhage severity and recurrence frequency from the degree of pyloroduodenal stenosis was revealed. Recurrence of ulcer gastroduodenal bleeding - is the main factor that determines lethality at SPBU.