[In tolerance reactions to Rheomacrodes. Apropos of 3 cases].

Three cases of reactions of intolerance to Rheomacrodex were observed during these last four years in our Department, and this led us to attempt to sum up their exact nature and in particular the possibility of an immuno-allergic orgin. From the clinical standpoint, the symptomatology is dominated by the combination of abrupt collapse associated with Quincke's edema in two cases, and with bronchospasm in the third. The course was rapidly favourable under respiratory and circulatory emergency resuscitation.

[Anesthesia in reoperations in abdominal surgery].

Fifty one patients from different surgical units, hence anesthetized by different anaesthesists, underwent reinterventions in abdominal surgery. The indications for the first intervention essentially involved the supra-mesocolic region of the abdomen (62 out of 100 cases). The operative risk during the first intervention was on the average 18 pour cent.