[Surgical treatment of postoperative infected hernias].

The article deals with the results of examination and treatment of 153 patients with postoperative ventral hernias. In 109 (71.3%) of these patients the hernia formed due to suppuration of the wound after the first operation; 48 (31.

[Quantitative evaluation of humoral and cellular factors of antibacterial protection in patients with postoperative hernia complicated by suppurative process].

The article presents material on the study of the dynamics of humoral factors of the organism's antibacterial protection in correlation with factors of cellular immunity in 78 patients with postoperative ventral hernias complicated by a pyoinflammatory process. Factors of cellular immunity were studied in 33 patients, humoral factors of the organisms' antibacterial protection, in 45 patients. A distinct relation of the character of disorders of these factors to the type of the operation was revealed and their prognostic significance for clinical medicine was determined.