[Barium sulfate and water-soluble contrast medium--a suitable mixture for contrast radiography in acute small bowel obstruction].

Experiences with a mixture of two different contrast media for radiography in acute small bowel obstruction are reported. Due to different physical and chemical properties, barium sulfate and a water-soluble, high-osmolar contrast medium provided high contrast density in all segments of the small bowel and a shortening of the transit time to the colon. This method proved to be effective and accurate in predicting which patients with suspected small bowel obstruction required surgical intervention.

[Treatment of hemoptysis by embolization of the thoracic arteries with Ethibloc].

Between November 1983 and July 1988 28 patients with haemoptysis were treated by transcatheter embolisation. Clinical follow-up of 22 patients revealed that 5 patients rebled within 21 days after embolization. Haemoptysis ceased completely in the remaining 17 patients.

[Does domperidone modify the hemodynamics of esophageal varices?].

In three patients with portal venous hypertension and oesophageal varices the effect of domperidone on the haemodynamics of the varices was studied. Following transhepatic catheterisation of the left gastric vein the perfusion of the oesophageal varices before and after the application of domperidone was evaluated angiographically. No decrease of the perfusion of the oesophageal varices secondary to domperidone was observed using this method.

[Diagnosis and therapy of bleeding aneurysms of the peripancreatic arteries].

Aneurysms of the pancreatic arteries are a rare complication of pancreatitis. Most usually they are observed with pancreatic pseudocysts or pancreatic abscesses. In view of the danger of haemorrhage, the diagnosis and treatment of these aneurysms is of considerable clinical significance.