[Causes of fatal outcome in acute appendicitis].

For the last 10 years, 97,542 patients were operated on for acute appendicitis, 132 (0.14%) died. Complications of purulent infection (peritonitis, intraabdominal abscesses) and its sequelae (acute commissural ileus, intestinal fistulas) conditioned by late hospitalization were the main cause of lethal outcomes.

[Means of reducing mortality in acute appendicitis].

The results of operative interventions conducted for acute appendicitis in 81,656 patients are analysed. Postoperative mortality reduced from 0.2 to 0.

[Diagnosis and surgical treatment of acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage].

Of 596 patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding, it developed from the gastric and duodenal, and peptic anastomotic ulcer in 382 (64.1%). The authors consider, that at every regional centre, it is expedient to hospitalize the patients with gastrointestinal bleeding in a single surgical unit, equipped with the endoscopic apparatus and all the necessary facilities for giving emergency surgical aid.