[Risk factors for the occurrence of postoperative adhesions].

The investigation of regularities in the appearance and development of postoperative adhesive disease enabled the authors to find out a number of the external and internal factors which are of special significance in the appearance of new cases of the disease.

[Postoperative adhesive intestinal obstruction].

The clinico-experimental investigations including the treatment of 1131 patients with postoperative adhesive ileus enabled the conclusion to be drawn that there are various causes of the development of the intraperitoneal adhesive process and ileus but finally they all come to a traumatic or bacterial lesion of the peritoneal lining. The authors failed to observe a causeless (so called "pathological") formation of adhesions. The causes of the development of adhesive ileus were always associated with the main pathological processes in the abdominal cavity and the character of the operation.

[Age aspects in etiology and pathogenesis of postoperative adhesive intestinal obstruction].

Based on the clinical observations and experiments on animals, the authors consider that in young growing organisms peritoneal adhesions are formed more rapidly and intensively than in adults. Moreover, children show a more rapid reverse development of postoperative adhesions.

[Some aspects of the complex treatment of acute suppurative perionitis].

The authors present an analysis of the results of complex treatment in 4318 patients operated upon for acute peritonitis, caused by acute appendicitis, perforating gastric and duodenal ulcers, acute cholecystitis, ruptures and perforations of the intestine and other surgical and gynecological diseases. Patients with diffuse purulent peritonitis showed marked disorders in protein-aminoacid, nitrogen, and water electrolyte metabolism, acid-base balance, a reduced nonspecific immune responsiveness of the organism. Therpeutic tactics was delineated taking into account the revealed changes.