[Dynamic magnetotherapy use in comprehensive treatment phlegmons of maxillofacial region and mandible fractures].

145 patients (60 with phlegmons of submandibular and submental regions, 85--with fractures of mandible) were observed and treated with the use of moving pulse magnetic field (MPMF) produced by special apparatus (AMO-ATOS-E, <>, Saratov-city), 60 patients with the same pathology were treated by traditional physical methods and served as control. Use of MPMF led to quicker patient recovery: quicker reduction (if compared with traditional physical methods of treatment) of oedema and soft tissue inflammatory infiltration, quicker relief from inflammatory reaction (according to data of cytokinin profile), improvement of tissue blood supply in the region of fractures in patients with mandible fractures. As the result--we had shortening treatment terms of such patients and complication number reduction.

[Diagnosis of the stage of adult respiratory distress syndrome in patients with peritonitis].

The respiratory function of the lungs was examined in 68 patients with diffuse peritonitis of different origin in the early postoperative period by laboratory, instrumental, and statistical methods and assessed by expert evaluation. The training sampling included 275 cases expertly classified as follows: health, stage I respiratory distress syndrome of adults (RDSAI), RDSAII, RDSAIII, and RDSAIV. Discriminant analysis was carried out fir the first four classes of patients.

[Therapeutic tactics in acute obstruction of the terminal part of the common bile duct].

The authors had 158 patients with acute block of the terminal part of the choledochus under observation. According to the clinical course, a biliary, pancreatic, and mixed forms were distinguished. The emergency diagnostic program was made up of ultrasonic examination, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, ERCP, and laparoscopy.

[Decompression of the gallbladder in acute cholecystitis in middle-aged and elderly patients].

The authors showed that operations for decompression of the gallbladder may improve the results of surgical treatment of acute cholecystitis in elderly and senile patients at a high anesthesiological risk. Decompression operations reduced postoperative fatality among patients of the most "threatened" group to 3.5%.

[Laparoscopic microcholecystostomy in the treatment of acute cholecystitis].

Laparoscopic microcholecystostomy is recommended by the authors for nonarrested attack of acute cholecystitis in patients with high operative-anesthesiological risk as the first step of treatment. Delayed operations are performed after arrest of the inflammatory process in the gallbladder and correction of the coexistent pathology. The use of laparoscopic microcholecystostomy considerably decreased lethality in most dangerous contingent of patients.