[Crystallo-optic structures of bile in chronic acalculous cholecystitis].

A crystal optical study of the cystic bile under the conditions of compulsory dehydration in patients with acalculous cholecystitis made it possible to determine selective markers of lithogenic dyscholia according to the bile oversaturation with cholesterol, bilirubin and calcium. Chronic acalculous cholecystitis (CAC) is a chronic polyetiologic inflammatory disease of the gall-bladder (GB) combined with motor-tonic impairments of the bile-excreting tract function and with changes of physical and chemical properties and biochemical bile structure (dyscholia). CAC contributes to cholestasia, metabolic disorders and formation of calculi.

[Features of ultrasound imaging of chronic pancreatitis in combination with duodenal ulcer].

Analysis of ultrasonic scanning images demonstrated that each form of chronic pancreatitis (CP) has its characteristic US features. For example, if CP runs in the presence of duodenal ulcer, the pancreas presents with blurred outline, high parenchymal echogenicity, diffuse structural heterogeneity, short-term visualization of the Wirsung's duct. There were also gastric hypersecretion and signs of fibrosing ductulitis.

[Serum crystalloscopic study in the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis concurrent with biliary diseases].

The sera from 20 patients with chronic pancreatitis concurrent with diseases of biliary tract and gallbladder were first crystalloscopically studied. Hypertrypsinemia was followed by the appearance of a specific structure appeared as crystals made by a continuum dendritic large-porous lattice. The test proposed is easy-to-use and may be useful in diagnosing chronic pancreatitis.