[Nutritional therapy in children during perioperative period].

The efficiency of nutritive therapy was analyzed in cases of 37 patients with gastrointestinal pathologies. Group 1 comprised 12 patients with fistulas of different etiologies and localizations; and group 2 comprised 15 patients with esophageal pathologies, including 7 children with esophageal atresia and 8 children with post-burn cicatricial stenosis of the esophagus. A method of nutrition-status correction by means of both enteral and parenteral feeding is suggested on the basis of examination findings comprising both clinical and laboratory-and-instrumental data.

[Preoperative care and surgical treatment of small-intestinal fistulas in children].

Experience in using complex treatment in 42 children with unformed small-intestinal fistulas, generalized defects of the anterior abdominal wall and severe disorders of alimentary status is presented. Their preoperative preparation included parenteral alimentation, enteral probe feeding with special elementary milk formulas, correction of metabolic disorders. Intestinoplication during surgery was carried out with the medicinal glue MK-7 to prevent intestinal obstruction and formation of interloop abscesses.