[Injury of inferior vena cava].

Results of treatment of 102 patients with injuries of inferior vena cava (IVC) were analyzed. The causes of injury were penetrating stab-incised wounds of abdomen (67.5% patients), close trauma (28.

[Causes and features of involvement of the intestine and its vessels in acute disturbance of mesenterial circulation].

A course of acute disturbance of mesenterial circulation (ADMC) in 346 patients (89% of them were over 50 years, mean age 68.4+/-3.6 years) was analyzed.

Acute disorders of mesenteric circulations: the etiology, risk factors and incidence of lesions.

Acute disorder of mesenteric circulation (ADMC) is an emergency pathology of the abdominal organs. It occurs in 0.2% of general surgery patients.

[Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolic complications in patients operated on abdominal organs].

Comparative analysis of results of venous thromboembolic complications prophylaxis (deep vein thrombosis--DVT1, pulmonary artery thromboembolism--PAT) in patients operated on abdominal organs during two periods--from 1980 to 1983 (when traditional methods were used--leg bandage, rarely--0.25-0.5 g aspirin 1-2 times a day 5-8 days after surgery) and from 1984 to 1998 (when in the operated patients with moderate, high and very high risk of DVT and PAT combination of physical methods of blood flow acceleration in leg deep veins with drugs was used--minidoses or individually selected doses of non-fractionated heparin, low-molecular heparin, dextrans) was carried out.

[Clinical-pathologoanatomic analysis of post-operative thromboembolism of pulmonary artery].

Autopsy and clinical data were analysed for 803 surgical patients whose death was due to pulmonary artery thromboembolism (PAT). PAT was diagnosed intravitally in 32% of the deceased. 87% of the patients with PAT symptoms died within 2 hours.

[Treatment of heart wounds].

Care results in 48 patients (male--38, female--10) with heart wounds (HW) were analyzed. 40 (83.2%) patients had stab-incised wounds, 7 (14.

[Abdominal trauma with injuries of the major vessels].

Treatment results in 87 patients (mean age 30.1 years) with traumatic injuries of major abdominal vessels were analyzed. 73 patients had stab-incised wounds, 9--blunt trauma, 5--gunshot wounds.

[Postoperative thromboembolism of pulmonary artery].

Pathologo-morphological and clinical records of 803 surgical patients have been analysed, in whom the thromboembolism of pulmonary artery (TEPA) was the only or the main cause of the death. Intravital diagnosis of TEPA was established in 32% of all the deceased. 87% of patients with evident symptoms of the embolism died during the first 2 hours, 52.