[Surgical treatment of acquired defects and ruptures of interventricular septum]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie priobretennykh defektov i razryvov mezhzheludochkovoi peregorodki serdtsa.

Surgical repair of posttraumatic ventricular septal defects, aortic-right ventricular fistulas and postinfarction ruptures of interventricular septum was carried out in 15 patients aged 18-75 years. Methods of radical correction included suturing, plastic repair with synthetic and autopericardial patches, and amputation of cardiac apex. Procedures were performed 14 days - 12 months after myocardial infarction and 1-12 months after penetrating knife wounds of the chest and the heart. Duration of follow-up was from 1 month to 9.5 years. There were no cases of defect recanalization and deaths.

[Possibilities of management of dyspeptic symptoms in the immediate postoperative period]. / O vozmozhnostiakh preodoleniia dispepsicheskikh iavlenii v blizhaishem posleoperatsionnom periode.

Analysis of the postoperative course of 1276 patients has shown that the incidence of nausea and vomiting in the first hours after surgical intervention does not depend on the mode of analgesia. Dyspepsia in the immediate postoperative period occurred in more than 1/3 of the patients after surgery on the bile duct. Addition of metoclopramide or dimetpromide to premedication helped reduce the incidence of postoperative vomiting. An antiemetic drug should be an obligatory component of premedication.