[The epidemiological diagnosis of "fecal-oral" hepatitis E in Tajikistan].

On the basis of the results of the retrospective epidemiological analysis of hepatitis A morbidity for many years in the Leninabad (now Hojend) region of Tajikistan the possibility of the epidemiological diagnosis of fecal-oral hepatitis non A, non B, also known as hepatitis E, was confirmed. Analysis of the specific features of a sharp morbidity rise in hepatitis A in this region in 1986-1987 made it possible to establish that this rise was caused by hepatitis E. This was testified by the explosive character of morbidity; the prevalence of persons aged 15-29 years, found to have antibodies to hepatitis A virus in 95% of cases (among patients, these persons constituted 67.

[Enteral feeding in the complex preoperative care of patients with cicatricial and ulcerous pyloroduodenal stenosis].

Based upon an experience with the treatment of 87 patients the authors recommend enteral nutrition with special mixtures in combination with the stimulation of gastric motility by medicamentous drugs, electroacupuncture and electrostimulation to be performed in the postoperative period.