[Artificial therapeutic feeding in esophageal surgery].

Manifestations of the protein-energy deficiency were studied in 150 patients with burn strictures of the esophagus, and the ways of their correction by means of artificial therapeutic feeding were analysed. It was shown, that inclusion of an adequate artificial nutrition diet into the preoperative medication allows for preoperative normalization of the patient's nutritional status and thus for a significant improvement of postoperative results.

Hyperbaric oxygenation in treatment of peripheral vascular disorders.

The authors discuss the reaction of central and peripheral hemodynamics to HBO and therapeutic effect of superoxygenation on ischemic tissues. HBO not only improves the metabolism in the ischemic areas but also activates microcirculation in such areas with a reduced blood flow. The experience of the largest Soviet HBO center covers more than 3,000 cases of peripheral vascular disorders.

[Clinical picture and variants in the course of chronic postinfarction aneurysms of the heart].

The study is based on the analysis of 268 patients with chronic postinfarction aneurysms of the heart, 190 of whom were operated. Clinical characteristics of postinfarction cardiac aneurysms are presented, and several symptoms typical for this pathology are singled out: pericardial pulsation, low pulse volume, tachycardia, outward shift of the left margin of the heart, galloping atrial rhythm. Proceeding from a careful analysis of the clinical material an original classification of the variants of the clinical course of chronic postinfarction carrdiac aneurysms is introduced: 1) with prevailing chronic coronary insufficiency; 2) with combined chronic coronary and cardiac insufficiency; 3) with prevailing cardiac insufficiency.