[Diagnostic accuracy in acute pancreatitis in the prehospital and early hospital stages]. / Tochnost diagnostiki ostrogo pankreatita na dogospitalnom i rannem gospitalnom etape.

The results of the analysis of diagnosis of acute pancreatitis on the basis of studying 3634 case records are presented. Errors in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis at the prehospital stage were established in 61.9%, at the early hospital stage--in 32.35% of cases, usually in the form of hyperdiagnosis of the disease.

[Value of exhaled air acetone level in assessing the impairement of secretory pancreatic function in acute destructive pancreatitis]. / Znachenie atsetona vydykhaemogo vozdukha kak kriteriia otsenki narusheniia inkretornoi funktsii podzheludochnoi zhelezy pri ostrom destruktivnom pankreatite.

For the first time, a semiconductor gas sensor of original construction was employed to measure acetone level in the biologic liquids and gases in patients with acute destructive pancreatitis. A statistically significant difference in acetone level in the exhaled air of the healthy subjects, patients with edematous and destructive forms of acute pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus has been established.

[Informativeness of the methods of early clinical laboratory diagnosis of acute pancreatitis]. / Informativnost' metodov rannei klinicheskoi laboratornoi diagnostiki ostrogo pankreatita.

In 92 patients with acute pancreatitis, the informative value of the available methods for laboratory investigations (general blood analysis, biochemical blood analysis with measurement of the level of total protein, bilirubin, glucose, ALAT, ASAT, amylase activity, amylase activity in the urine) was analysed. The authors consider that the indices studied are rather informative for independent reliable diagnosis of acute pancreatitis and differentiation of its forms.