[Surgery in patients with chronic renal failure on maintenance dialysis (author's transl)].

Among 606 patients on maintenance dialysis in the same unit, 111 (18.3%) underwent various surgical procedures. 14 additional patients on dialysis in other units were included in this group.

[Abdominal complications of heart surgery].

Abdominal complications after cardiac surgery (excluding "medical" jaundice) are rare. Twenty six cases were observed out of a total of 7 847 operations (0.33%) performed between 1973 and 1980.

[Parietal complications of cholecystectomy : results of prophylactic antibiotic therapy with cefazoline (author's transl)].

Patients undergoing cholecystectomy were randomly divided into two groups. The effects of a single injection of one gram of cefazoline given thirty minutes before operation to 30 patients were compared with those obtained in a second group of 29 untreated cases. The efficiency of the second generation cephalosporins in preventing postoperative complications of this type was confirmed.