[Using a compression method after surgical treatment of hemorrhoids]. / Ispol'zovanie kompressionnogo metoda posle khirurgicheskogo lecheniia gemorroia.

A compression method was used as a final stage of surgical treatment of hemorrhoids which was performed with a specially worked out compressing probe (two latex cuffs were mounted on the three-lumen rubber tube). The internal and external hemorrhoids were compressed after introduction of the probe into the anal canal and blowing up the cuffs. Comparative results of 103 operations are shown: in 67 patients the operation was finished with the introduction of an ointment tampon, in 36--with a compressing probe. Postoperative results judged by such symptoms as postoperative pains, bleedings, adaptation of the operation wound edges, retention of urine etc. showed that the compression method had considerable advantages over the control group.

[Direct infusion of drug mixture into the aorta in the treatment of necrotizing pancreatitis]. / Priamaia infuziia lekarstvennoi smesi v aortu pri lechenii pankreonekroza.

The article analyses briefly the methods of modern treatment of destructive pancreatitis. The authors apply complex treatment the principal component of which is infusion of a drug mixture into the aorta after its direct puncture at the level of the 8th-9th thoracic vertebra. The mixture consists of procaine hydrochloride solution, heparin, morphocycline, ftorafur , diphenylhydramine hydrochloride, trimeperidine hydrochloride. Before the aorta is punctured, 100-150 ml of a procaine hydrochloride solution is injected into the paraaortic fat to block the celiac and vagus nerves and the solar plexus. In a period of 9 years 138 patients underwent such treatment. Comparative study showed that the method differed favourably from that in which intraaortic infusion of drugs and blockade of the mediastinal nerve elements were not applied. The mortality was 8.33 in the first and 27.8% in the second group.