[Laboratory diagnosis of infected pancreonecrosis].

The results of treatment and examination were analyzed in 175 patients admitted to a clinic for sterile pancreonecrosis (PN). The significance of routinely available (clinical, biochemical, and microbiological) laboratory tests in the diagnosis of purulent complications was analyzed in patients with varying severity of pancreatic autolysis. Complex laboratory monitoring was found to be of importance in predicting and detecting infected PN with obligatory fine-needle punctures under ultrasound guidance and further microscopic studies of puncture specimens.

[State of the liver in patients with obesity at distant periods after formation of a "small stomach"].

Histological study of biopsy specimens taken from the liver of 96 patients during operation for formation of a "small stomach" revealed fatty dystrophy of the liver in 93 patients (96.9%) which was attended by marked inflammatory and fibrous changes in 68 (70.8%) of them and by disturbed lobar structure of the liver (cirrhosis) in 2 patients (2.