[Interrelationship of the immune status with the degree of reactive anxiety in patients with gastroduodenal disease].

Interrelationship of the immune state of patients with the reactive anxiety degree in patients suffering gastroduodenal ulcer disease was established. The most pronounced inhibition of the immunity cell link along with moderate activation of its humoral link was noted in patients with low degree of anxiety, and less pronounced one--with high degree of anxiety, in patients with middle degree of anxiety the changes were absent.

[The diagnosis and treatment of patients with foreign bodies in the stomach and intestines].

The results of treatment of 39 patients with complications caused by presence of foreign bodies in the stomach and intestine are presented. Conservative treatment was performed in detection of a single foreign body with a length up to 10 cm. The foreign body staying at the same place for three days should serve an indication for operation.

[The diagnosis and treatment procedure in nonopaque foreign bodies in the stomach and intestines].

For 10 years, 26 patients underwent treatment for complications caused by presence in the stomach and intestine of the foreign bodies with low radio-opacity and echogenicity. All the patients were operated on. At operation, a cause of the disease was established: in 17 cases--a fish bone, in 5--a small chicken bone, in 1--a conifer needle, in 2--a wooden chip, in 1--a home-made toothpick.

[Relaparotomy in surgery of cholelithiasis].

In a period of 5 years 790 patients underwent operation in the surgical clinic for cholelithiasis. Relaparotomy had to be conducted on 23 (2.9%) patients because intraabdominal complications occurred: escape of bile from the gallbladder bed and choledochus in its drainage, and development of peritonitis in 13 patients, pancreatitis in 2 patients, abdominal abscesses in 5, bleeding into the free abdominal cavity and the gastrointestinal tract in 3 patients.