[The use of the carbon dioxide laser in acute surgical infection of the soft tissues].

Clinico-laboratory studies were conducted in 46 patients with wound infection for the treatment of which carbon-dioxide laser was used, and in 78 patients who were operated on with a metal scalpel (control). It is shown that "excision" and "evaporation" of tissues took 15-45 minutes. Repeated interventions were performed in 15% of cases due to bleeding from vessels measuring 1.

[Quantitative evaluation of humoral and cellular factors of antibacterial protection in patients with postoperative hernia complicated by suppurative process].

The article presents material on the study of the dynamics of humoral factors of the organism's antibacterial protection in correlation with factors of cellular immunity in 78 patients with postoperative ventral hernias complicated by a pyoinflammatory process. Factors of cellular immunity were studied in 33 patients, humoral factors of the organisms' antibacterial protection, in 45 patients. A distinct relation of the character of disorders of these factors to the type of the operation was revealed and their prognostic significance for clinical medicine was determined.