[Clinico-biochemical evaluation of the effectiveness of plasmapheresis in the treatment of severe forms of viral hepatitis].

The study was performed of clinico-biochemical effect of plasmapheresis (PA) in severe viral hepatitis B, mixed hepatitis and hepatitis delta. Altogether 24 patients, all of them HBsAg carriers, were examined. With associated acute hepatic encephalopathy, clinical effect in hepatitis of PA was insignificant notwithstanding positive biochemical changes.

[Some problems of treatment and surgical approach in acute appendicitis].

According to the author's data within a 7-year period in the Regional Hospital 1329 appendectomies were performed, in 7 per cent--for chronic appendicitis. Annually, 51 persons are operated upon per 10,000 population. Late terms of hospitalization were noted in 19.