[Tamsulosin in the treatment of patients with ureteroliths of the lower third of the ureter clinical and pharmacoeconomic grounds].

Alpha1-adrenoblocker tamsulosin reduces muscle spasm in the ureteric wall, decreases peristalsis below and raises pressure above the stone thus facilitating stone passage. Patients on tamsulosin had spontaneous stone passage in 73.8% cases while only 22.4% patients on routine therapy became stone free. Tamsulosin also shortens hospital stay. Use of tamsulosin 0.4 mg daily in patients with distal ureteric stones is pathogenetically validated, is highly clinically and cost effective.

[The removal of a traumatic iridodialysis by closed iridoplasty]. / Ustranenie travmaticheskogo iridodializa metodom zakrytoi iridoplastiki.

The authors describe their method for removal of iridodialysis, without surgical incision, by means of a hollow needle with the aperture for a thread on the working end and a cannula on the other end of the needle. The scheme of the operation is described in detail and the effectiveness of the new method of treatment in 24 patients with traumatic iridodialysis is analysed. Clinical approbation has shown high effectiveness of the proposed surgical method of treatment and its technical simplicity, allowing to recommend it for the usage in wide clinical practice.

[The characteristics of the emergency surgical care for patients with eye trauma complicated by an injury to the iris]. / Osobennosti urgentnoi khirurgicheskoi pomoshchi bol'nym s travmami glaz, oslozhnennymi povrezhdeniiem raduzhnoi obolochki.

The paper describes results after a complex surgical treatment of 58 patients with fresh eye traumas complicated by iris injuries. An improved method of iridoplasty is proposed for treatment of extensive iridodialysis using no additional surgical incisions in the process of primary surgical treatment. On the grounds of the analysis of the treatment carried out it is emphasized that in primary surgical treatment the injury of the iris and of other eye structures should be eliminated as maximum as possible. The proposed method of complex reconstructive treatment allows to obtain high optical and cosmetic results in patients with severe injuries of the eye, to achieve their fuller medical and social rehabilitation in a shorter time.