[Diagnosis and treatment of liver echinococcosis complicated by cysto-biliary fistula].

890 patients with echinococcosis of the liver were operated during 1976-1992. Complicated forms of the disease were li detected in 222 (24.9%) patients, among them 141 (15.

[Combined use of peritoneo-atrial shunting and endoscopic sclerotherapy of esophageal varicose veins in treating liver cirrhosis with portal hypertension and resistant ascites].

The authors in 39 patients with liver cirrhosis and intractable ascites performed peritoneoatrial shunting (PAS), in 16--PAS in combination with prophylactic endoscopic sclerotherapy (ES) of gastric varices (GV). Prophylactic use of ES before PAS permitted to reduce more than 3-fold the incidence of postoperative bleeding from EV.

[Endoscopy in the evaluation of rare forms of gastric ulcers].

The endoscopic examination made in 49309 patients with long standing "gastritis" history has revealed 1476 patients (2.99%) with ulcers of gastric localization. The diagnosis of ulcer disease of the stomach had been previously established only in 17.

[Endoscopic diagnosis and removal of foreign bodies from upper segments of the digestive tract].

The authors have made an analysis of urgent endoscopic examinations performed on 165 patients with foreign bodies in the upper part of the digestive tract. The occurrence and character of foreign bodies in different organs, extraction with the help of an endoscope, prevention of possible complications are considered.

[Ligatures of gastrointestinal anastomoses and their role in postgastrectomy diseases].

The clinico-endoscopic investigations have shown the ligation fistulas observed in 2,3% of patients following operations on the stomach to give the clinical picture characteristic of the operated stomach gastrites. Sometimes they are complicated by hemorrhages. All the ligations must be ablated in one or several steps.

[State of the gastric mucosa after organ-saving operations in duodenal ulcer].

Organ-preserving operations on the stomach when combined with vagotomy were found to reduce the acid formation in the stomach which facilitates healing of the duodenal ulcer.

[Electrocoagulation in the arrest of gastrointestinal hemorrhage].

The curative endoscopy with diathermocoagulation was performed in 100 patients with acute gastro-intestinal bleedings. Peptic ulcers were the cause of the bleedings in most patients (64). The complete arrest of hemorrhage was achieved in 75 patients.

[Bleeding gastric ulcer].

Under study were 113 patients with hemorrhagic ulcer of the stomach. It was established that gastric ulcers were the causes of hemorrhage from the upper parts of the gastrointestinal tract in 9,3% of cases. Hemorrhagic ulcers of the stomach were the cause of hemorrhages of ulcerous etiology in 22% of cases.