[Decompression of the biliary tract in acute cholangitis].

Analysis of the results of treatment of 152 patients with acute cholangitis of benign origin made it possible to substantiate two-stage therapeutic tactics consisting in instrumental decompression at the peak to the disease and a corrective intervention conducted after removal of the clinical manifestations of ascending biliary infection and cholemic intoxication. The two-stage method of treatment of acute cholangitis allowed the frequency of purulent complications of hepatic insufficiency to be reduced and the postoperative mortality to be lowered six fold.

[Clinical findings concerning a comparative study of several structural features of depression].

The author studied 321 patients with depressive states of a different nature (reactive, symptomatical and endogenous). An attempt is made to establish connections between atypical neurotical states and hallucinatory-paranoid symptoms on the one hand and certain depressive emotions on the other. The opinion is expressed that anguish to a greater extent prevents the polymorphism of a depressive affect and the appearance of nonemotional disorders.