[Endoscopy for gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with pelvic and leg bones trauma].

The results of 36 endoscopic procedures performed because of clinical signs of the gastrointestinal bleeding to the patients, hospitalized with traumatic fractures of pelvis and lower limbs, were analyzed. The acquired data allowed to reveal the terms of bleeding development and the efficacy of the endoscopic hemostasis, as well as substantiate the need of antisecretory treatment for the curtain age category of patients.

[Esophagogastroimpedancemanometry in diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux in patients with chemical burns of the stomach].

Esophagogastroimpedancemanometry conducted in 40 patients with chemical bums of the stomach (CBS) in acute and early postburn periods has revealed that CBS affect motor function of the cardia in 95% patients. This motor cardial dysfunction results in erosive and erosive-ulcerous reflux-esophagitis in 22.5% patients.

[Impaired gastric acid secretion in patients poisoned by cauterizing liquids].

Intragatric pH-metry made in 80 patients with chemical gastric burn (CGB) in the acute and early postburn periods revealed that in 17% of the victims, gastric acid secretion remains normal, 51.2% of cases showed its increase (hyperacidity) whose maximum rates (100%) are detected in patients with extensive CGB of the third degree and whose minimum rates (20%) were found in those with fourth-grade CGB. Hypoacidicity was diagnosed in 31.