[Surgical treatment of recurrent inguinal hernia].

The experience with surgical treatment of 89 patients with recurrent inguinal hernia is presented. A method for hernioplasty with the use of the pyramidal muscle transferred for covering the inguinal space is described. In 37 patients, no hernia recurrence and injury to the femoral vessels were revealed.

[The surgical treatment of large ventral hernias in middle-aged and elderly patients].

Changes of intra-abdominal pressure, the degree of abdominal wall stretching, the strength of connection of the tissues and the quality of the operative wound, central hemodynamics, and the indices of external breathing were studied depending on the type of hernioplasty in 44 animals (dogs) and 420 patients with large ventral hernias. The authors suggest a method for surgical treatment of ventral hernias by twisted aponeurotic sutures applied under control of intraabdominal pressure. With the use of this method the number of complications in the main group reduced 3.

[Surgical treatment of complicated ulcer disease of the stomach and duodenum at the health department of a metallurgical factory].

The case records of 419 patients with complicated gastric and duodenal ulcer disease were analysed. Frequent asymptomatic course of the ulcer disease was noted in workers of the metallurgical and engineering industry. Different modifications of Billroth resection of the 2/3 of the stomach were used in 240 patients, selective proximal vagotomy (SPV) with ulcer excision--in 87, transverse gastric resection with preservation of the pyloric sphincter--in 30, closure of a perforative hole--in 60, closure of a perforative hole with excision of the ulcer margins and bilateral truncal vagotomy--in 2.