[Changes in levels of plasma fibronectin after surgery for digestive cancer].

Fibronectin is a large, adhesive glycoprotein, also called opsonic alpha 2 surface-binding glycoprotein. This glycoprotein which participates in all adhesions may modulate wound healing; plasma fibronectin, because it is opsonically active, may mediate reticulo-endothelial activity. Citrated plasma samples were analysed from twenty surgical patients with digestive cancer.

[Intensive care in acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis. Hemodynamic aspects].

Hemodynamic monitoring by a balloon flotation catheter was done in eight patients suffering from acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis. This syndrome associates hypovolemia and circulatory failure. These two factors are enhanced by the "pulmonary pancreatic syndrome" which produces hypoxemia.