[MORPHOLOGIC CHANGES OF INTRA- AND EXTRAPANCREATIC ARTERIES IN ELDERLY AND SENILE PATIENTS IN ACUTE NECROTIC PANCREATITIS].

In 38 elderly and senile patients, in whom an acute necrotic pancreatitis (ANP) was diagnosed, morphological changes in the walls of intra- and extrapancreatic arteries were studied, including dorsal pancreatic artery, big pancreatic artery (Heller) and their branches. The patients were operated, using open surgical access, on the 10 - 26-th day after admittance to hospital for purulent-septic complications of pancreonecrosis. In total 9 (24%) patients died.

[THE PLACE OF PANCREATICODUODENAL RESECTION IN SURGICAL TREATMENT OF COMPLICATED FORMS OF CHRONIC PANCREATITIS].

Results of surgical treatment of 120 patients, suffering complicated forms of chronic pancreatitis, were analyzed. In 5 patients pancreaticoduodenal resection in accordance to Whipple method have constituted the operation of choice. The indications for operation were: impossibility to exclude completely the malignant process inside pancreatic head; enhancement of the pancreatic head, causing duodenal, common biliary duct and the pancreatoduodenal zone vessels compression; cystic changes of pancreatic head with several episodes of hemorrhage inside the cyst and duodenum.

[The analysis of maternal mortality in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya)].

In the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya) a stable increase of indicator of birth rate was marked during 1990-2012. Against the background of increase of indicator of birth rate the indicator of maternal mortality has a positive tendency to decrease. During 1990-2012, indicator of maternal mortality decreased from 560.