[Clinical course of alcoholic pancreatitis].

Aim: To study a natural course of alcoholic pancreatitis (AP).

Material And Methods: Follow-up clinical, laboratory and radiation examinations were made of 170 patients with alcoholic pancreatitis. Exocrine secretion of the pancreas was assessed by secretin-pancreozymin test.

[Significance of the operational test parameters in selection of a diagnostic test for Helicobacter infection].

The group of 89 patients was examined, 63 of them suffered by a duodenal ulcerative disease, 11--by gastric ulcerative disease and 15--by chronic gastritis. It was conducted the comparison of the following indices: sensitivity, specificity, relationship of probability and diagnostic efficiency of histological, cytological methods, urease and respiratory tests, method of polymerase chain reaction, qualitative and quantitative definition of antibodies of the class IgG in serum blood to H. pylori by a method of enzyme immunoassay and Western-blot for H.

[A trial of the use of sandostatin in patients with chronic pancreatitis].

Out of 15 patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) treated with sandostatin, 8 patients demonstrated a complete and 6 partial response. One patient did not respond. Pain relief occurred in all of them.