[The clinical and pathogenic significance of the chronic specific infection in the gastroenterology].

As a result of the integrative evaluation of clinical and laboratory results of 610 patients with pathology of the digestive system, which was accompanied with the chronic specific infection (CSI) such as VHA, VHE, VHB, VHC, VHD, GB, F, TTV, SEN; types I and II herpes virus, cytomegalovirus, toxoplasmosis. The conception of the systemic polyglandulopathy was formulated. The authors have analyzed some pathogenic mechanisms and clinical pecularities of the chronic specific infection in patients with the diseases of the digestive system and the principles of the diagnosis and complex treatment were proposed.

[The interdigestive motility of the gallbladder in patients with gastric and duodenal peptic ulcer]. / Mezhpishchevaritel'naia motorika zhelchnogo puzyria u bol'nykh iazvennoi bolezn'iu zheludka i dvenadtsatiperstnoi kishki.

As many as 30 patients with uncomplicated ulcer disease and 8 essentially healthy individuals were studied for the tone and contractile function of the gallbladder under basal conditions with regard to the phases of duodenal interdigestive motility. In normals, the gallbladder functions according to phases of duodenal interdigestive motility while the clinical picture in those patients with ulcer disease is distinguished by predominance of hypermotor dyskinesia of the gallbladder and bile tract, which fact is manifested by reduction of its capacity as well as hypertone and discordant work of Lütken's--and Oddi sphincters leading to untimely and incomplete outgo of the bladder bile. Ultrasonic investigation of the gallbladder is to be carried out with due regard to its phase-associated interdigestive motility.

[Immunoreactive insulin, C-peptide and insulin-containing erythrocytes in chronic pancreatitis]. / Immunoreaktivnyi insulin, C-peptid i insulinsoderzhashchie éritrotsity pri khronicheskom pankreatite.

The levels of immunoreactive insulin, C-peptide and insulin containing erythrocytes were studied in 26 patients on the 2nd and 12th day of their stay in hospital. A higher level of C-peptides was found in the patients as compared to healthy subjects. The level of immunoreactive insulin of the patients did not differ significantly from that of healthy subjects. The number of insulin containing erythrocytes in the patients was much lower than in healthy subjects. Their number after therapy did not rise considerably. There was no correlation between these indices.