Mortality of registered drug users in Central Asia.

Background: Within the fifth phase of the Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP) covering five post-Soviet Central Asian countries, an analysis of the mortality of drug users was performed. The results for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are presented in detail in this paper since results from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are not considered valid and Turkmenistan did not provide data at all.

Methods: A system of registration of all users of illegal drugs known to the health and/or law enforcement authorities ("narcological registers") exists in Central Asian countries inherited from the system of Soviet "narcology".

[Reconstruction of renal veins and imposition of vascular anastomoses in relative kidney transplantation].

The paper shows how to create the best ways extracorporeal reconstruction of the renal veins in related transplantation. It is necessary to consider the possibility of autoplasty at nephrectomy from a living donor, expansion of the distal renal vein and allow its implementation through the walls of the gonad donor veins. When there are several veins, the largest is used for anastomosis, others may be tied because of a well-developed network of intrarenal collateral venous outflow.

[The liver hemangioms: operation or observation].

The treatment results of 178 patients with liver hemangioms were analyzed. 322 liver hemangioms of the average size of 36,5 (4-350) mm were diagnosed in 178 patients. 50 (28%) patients were operated on.

[The treatment of the sponateneous biloma and choledocholithiasis after the liver resection on the reason of the giant hemangioma].

Patient with giant rapidly growing liver hemangioma who carried out right hemihepatectomy is reported. The feature if this case is choledocholithiasis after liver resection followed by its rare complication (spontaneous biloma) in 6 years after surgery. Minimally invasive procedures (percutaneous drainage, endoscopic papillotomy and stenting) eliminated each of bile collection and cause of biliary obstruction without surgical intervention.

[Radiological diagnosis of liver hemangiomas: look at the problem of surgical clinic].

Aim: To define significance of radiological diagnostics in detection and characterization of hepatic hemangiomas.

Materials And Methods: Analysis of 176 patients with liver hemangiomas was performed. All patients were investigated or consulted in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgical department.