[Choice of an alternative access in failed endovascular intervention through the right radial artery].

The transradial access has deservedly become the 'gold standard' while performing various X-ray endovascular interventions both diagnostic and therapeutic ones. However, along with all its advantages, it is not without disadvantages. These difficulties for the most part are related to peculiarities of the anatomy of upper-limb arteries.

[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis].

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was fulfilled in 108 patients admitted to the clinic with acute cholecystitis. Operations were made on 73% of them during the first four days from the beginning of the disease, 18.5% were operated upon within 5-7 days, 8.

[The efficacy of different types of cholecystectomy for chronic cholecystitis].

The results of surgical treatment of 193 patients with chronic calculous cholecystitis were analyzed. In 89 of then the ordinary cholecystectomy (OC) was conducted, in 48--cholecystectomy through the minilaparotomy access (MC), in 56--laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). After OC conduction the incidence of postoperative complications was the greatest.