[Choice of tools for stenting the left coronary artery trunk: a whim or a need?].

Objective: To study the results of stenting the left coronary artery trunk and to determine the possibility of using Empira dilatation balloon catheters for kissing dilatation.

Subject And Methods: The left coronary artery trunk was stented in 47 patients, which constituted 1.39% of the total number of the stented patients.

[The influence of the surgical access on the endotoxemia level].

The systemic inflammatory response, induced by the lipopolysaccharides of the normoflora of the operated patients was studied on the example of the plasma changes in 107 patients. All patients were divided in 4 groups, depending on the level of lipopolysaccharides in plasma. Thus, patients with the complicated course of the acute cholecystitis, demonstrated the increased lipopolysaccharides levels.

[Choice of plastic surgery in ventral hernias].

Morphological changes in the zone of plastic surgery with polypropylene graft were studied in experiment. Results of treatment of 195 patients with ventral hernias were analyzed. Study group consisted of 86 (44.