[Complications of treatment of stomach cancer--case report].

The authors made in a young 48-year-old patient a subtotal gastric resection with atypical resection of the liver on account of a metastasis, the basic diagnosis being: gastric tumour, histologically diffuse carcinoma with mucus formation. On the 6th postoperative day the condition was complicated by sepsis and dehiscence of the oesophagoantroanastomosis. With regard to the complication with a relapse of a subphrenic abscess the patient was repeatedly checked.

[Personal experience with mechanical intestinal anastomoses].

The authors evaluated the results of operations of the large intestine and rectum on account of cancer, covering a 4-year period. In all instances a stapler or Valtrac were used. Dehiscence of the anastomosis was recorded in one instance.

[Phonomechanocardiographic parameters of the ventricular function in the healthy adult].

There are studied several phonomechanocardiographic parameters of ventricular function and the obtained values in a normal patients' lot. It is analyzed the semiology of those data which offer information about pre-charge (apexcardiogramme's "a" index) of the myocardiac contractile state (true isosvstolic phase, ventricular pression's elevation middle velocity, integrated isovolumetric pression, and contracility index) and of its "pump" function (expulsion fraction); in the same way it is discussed the measurement's potential utility of diastolic intervals. It is emphasized the value that these parameters' measurement can have to know cardiac capacity and the affectation this can have by pharmacologic influence or by the ilnes.

[Phonomechanocardiography of 141 healthy patients].

When studying 141 normal persons of both sexes we checked acoustic phenomena and measured the sistolic intervals. We discuss here the presence of blowing anorganic phenomena and sounds III and IV among the general public. We develop equations of regression to correct the electromechanic sistole (QIIA) and the left ventricular ejection time (LVET) the registered values being different from those published by other researchers.

[Pulmonary diffusion capacity in patients with previous myocardial infarct (with respect to the influence of smoking and pulmonary congestion)].

Pulmonary diffusive capacity by the carbon monoxide method was evaluated in 43 patients two years after myocardial infarction, and without evidence of other types of heart disease. The patients did not have primary lung disease or clinic bronchitis. Special interest was given to the effects of cigarrette smoking and moderate pulmonary congestion.

[Static and dynamic volumes after myocardial infarction/clinical and radiological correlation].

A study was made of pulmonary function tests in patients averaging 2 years post MI, who did not present evidence of chronic bronchitis or other types of primary pneumopathy. The influence of smoking and moderate pulmonary congestion due to heart failure were studied. We found a significant inverse relation between dyspnea and the forced one second expiratory volume, as an expression of bronchial obstruction.

Tip surface changes in endocardial stimulation electrode, visualised by scanning electron microscopy.

The authors have been probably the first investigators who applied scanning electron microscopy to studies of the changes occurring in the surface of the metalic tip of an endocardial stimulating electrode. They found a lowered conductivity for secondary electron emission, and describe the surface changes in a platiniridium-tipped electrode which had been used for almost four years, in comparison with an unused electrode.