Successful Endoscopic Treatment of a Pancreatic Pseudocyst in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis and Upper GI Duplication.

BACKGROUND Duplication of the gastrointestinal tract is a rare congenital malformation that can develop in any part of the digestive tract. These duplications may be asymptomatic into adult age. Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by a mirror transposition of thoracic and abdominal organs.

Predictive and preventive strategies to advance the treatments of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: the Ukrainian context.

Despite great efforts in treatments of cardiovascular diseases, the field requires innovative strategies because of high rates of morbidity, mortality and disability, indicating evident deficits in predictive vascular diagnosis and individualized treatment approaches. Talking about the vascular system, currently, physicians are not provided with integrated medical approaches to diagnose and treat vascular diseases. Only an individual global approach to the analysis of all segments in the vascular system of a patient allows finding the optimal way for vascular disease treatment.

[Preperitoneal alloplasty of inguinal canal].

The results of treatment of 221 patients for inguinal hernia, including preperitoneal hernioplasty in 117 and hernioplasty according to Lichtenstein method in 104 of them, were analyzed. After the operation the testis shells watering had occurred in 6 patients, the postoperative cicatrix infiltrate--in 6, operative wound hematoma--in 4. The hernia recurrence had occurred, while fol-lowing patients up from 6 months till 4 years, in one patient only after operation, performed according to Lichtenstein method.

[Possibilities of magnetic resonance tomography in pancreatic cancer diagnosis].

There was conducted examination of 27 patients with pancreatic cancer using clinico-laboratory and instrumental methods: ultrasonic investigation, computeric tomography (CT), magnetic-resonance tomography (MRT). MRT was uninformative when pancreatic tumor was up to 3 cm in diameter. In diagnosis of cystadenocarcinoma, affection of common biliary duct and vessels and in small focal metastatic hepatic affection the results of MRT showed enhanced precision in comparison with CT.