[Portal hypertension as a clinical manifestation of hepatic lesions in sarcoidosis].

The paper is devoted to differential diagnostics of portal hypertension (PH) in view of frequent diagnostic mistakes (10-15%) associated with this pathology. PH syndrome is usually interpreted by practitioners as a clinical manifestation of liver cirrhosis even if it is not necessarily related to the involvement of this organ. In patients with hepatic pathology, PH is likely to develop not only in case of fibrotic transformation and false lobule formation but also in case of disturbed blood flow in the portal vein, e.

[Blood levels of HbsAg in patients with different variants of chronic HBV-infection].

Aim: To estimate HbsAg in patients with different variants of chronic HBV infection.

Material And Methods: Assay of HbsAg (IU/ml) in blood serum was made in 156 patients with chronic HBV infection (70 males and 86 females, age 19 to 78 years) using the test-system HbsAg Architect Lot 59665LF00 (Abbott) on the automatic analyzer Architect with construction of 4-parameter logistic curve.

Results: There are significant differences in the levels of HbsAg depending on the course of chronic HBV-infection: inactive carriers of HBV (12,884.

[Frequency of the detection of billiary sludge in ulcerative disease].

Patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer, in who never had the typical complaints, and anamnestic data about pathology of biliary system were examined. More than one third of the biliary sludge was found. Finding dates demonatrate an appearence of hypokinetic biliary dysfunction in patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer.