[Contact laser lithotripsy--an effective minimally traumatic method of treatment of cholelithiasis with calculi of the kidney, ureter and urinary bladder].

An experience with using contact laser lithotripsy is presented in treatment of such actual disease as cholelithiasis. This kind of modern minimally traumatic lithotripsy used in 73 patients has shown it to be effective independent of localization of the calculi: both in the urinary bladder and the kidney and ureter.

[Problems of the surgical treatment of congenital heart defects in adult patients]. / Nekotorye voprosy khirurgicheskogo lecheniia vrozhdennykh porokov serdtsa u vzroslykh bol'nykh.

A total of 175 adult patients with congenital heart diseases were investigated, of whom 140 were operated upon and 62 examined late after surgery. As noted, characteristic of adult patients were subjective complains, progressive pulmonary hypertension in defects with the blood shunting from the left to right and, because of this, the emergence of atypical symptoms of the defects. Surgical correction yields quite satisfactory results, but the presence of pulmonary hypertension tends to greatly increase the operative risk.