[Iatrogenic foreign body].

Three cases of iatrogenic foreign bodies are described. In case 1 a large stone was removed from the urinary bladder of a 80-year-old man 8 years after suprapubic prostatectomy. The concrement contained a fragment of the gauze tampon left during that operation.

[Prostatic adenomectomy in patients with a history of myocardial infarct, acute cerebral circulatory disorder and pulmonary thromboembolism].

Immediate and long-term outcomes of adenomectomy have been analyzed for patients with prostatic adenoma with a history of 1-3 myocardial infarctions (185 subjects), 1-2 episodes of cerebral circulation disorder (74 cases) on pulmonary artery thromboembolism (3 cases). The surgery was urgent because of acute urine retention for 88 patients, while it was scheduled in 174 patients. The postoperative developments were uneventful in 84.

[Treatment of patients with ureteral calculi].

Various methods of treatment were introduced to improve the results of management of patients with stones in the ureters and early restoration of their working capacity. Emergency ureterolithotomy (197 patients) reduced the incidence of postoperative complications by 2.4 times and the duration of in-patient treatment by 1.