[Acute surgical abdomen in idiopathic haemochromatosis].

The acute abdomen (AA) is a typical but very rare complication of idiopatic haemochromatosis (IH). The possible mechanisms are not sufficiently clarified. We report a case with IH who died with clinical features of (AA) 20 hours after gastroscopy was performed.

[Treatment of peptic ulcer with sucralfate].

Sucralfate made in Bulgaria (Farmaphim) and its Yugoslavian analogue venter have been tried in gastroduodenal ulcer. The drugs were given per os (1 g, 1 tablet) 4 times a day before meals for 20 days. Sucralfate treatment was assigned to 26 patients with gastric and 26 with duodenal ulcer.

[Treatment of duodenal ulcer with ranitidine].

30 patients with endoscopically proved duodenal peptic ulcer were treated with Bulgarian drug Ranatidin in a dose of 150 mg twice daily in the course of 20 days. The pains were relieved up to the third day in 90% of the patients treated and the dyspeptic complaints disappeared in 1-3 days in 96-100% of the patients. Following the treatment course a statistically significant decrease of the gastric secretion indices was established (V, V1) and of the basic acid production (BAO, MAO, PAO) in comparison with the values before the treatment.

[The carcinoembryonic antigen in chronic pancreatitis].

The fasting carcinoembryonal antigen (CEA) concentrations in the serum and duodenal juice and after venous stimulation of the exocrine pancreas with the hormones CCK and secretin (Boots) were studied. Radioimmunologic test with a kit of the firm "Labimex"--PPR was used. 28 patients with clinically proved chronic pancreatitis and a control group of 27 healthy persons were examined.