[Plasma serine protease inhibitors in patients with liver cirrhosis].

In 28 patients with liver cirrhosis as compared with the control group decreased concentrations of alpha 2-antiplasmin, antithrombin III and activator plasminogen inhibitor were observed. Decrease of these inhibitors was lower in advanced stages of cirrhosis accompanied by hypoalbuminemia and hyperbilirubinemia.

[Gastroduodenal reflux and histological changes in the gastric mucosa in patients with liver cirrhosis caused by HBV].

Endoscopic and histologic examinations of the gastric mucosa were performed in a group of 35 patients with HBV liver cirrhosis and 30 healthy persons. From among the patients 2 groups were singled out according to a liver disease progression: cirrhosis during liver functional compensation (n - 20). Cirrhosis over the period of liver functional unbalance (n - 15).

[Results of liver examination in drug addicts infected with HIV virus].

Investigations included 52 drug-addicts with asymptomatic HIV virus infection. 8 of them suffered some years ago, from virus hepatitis of type B. Physical examinations did not reveal in examined persons any deviations from normal condition except for hepatomegaly.