[Treatment of purulent postoperative wounds with collagen and immobilised gentamycin]. / Lechenie gnoínykh ran kollagenom s immobilizirovannym gentamitsinom.

The results of treatment of purulent postoperative wounds in 184 patients are discussed. All the patients were operated on urgently. Various destructive diseases of the abdominal cavity organs, complicated with peritonitis, were the indication for the surgery. The abdominal cavity was drained through laparatomic wound. The wounds became suppurative with subsequent diastasis of the wound edges. Microbiologic, cytologic and clinical tests were used to estimate effectiveness of the treatment with the use of collagen sponge with immobilised gentamycin. The method has provided fastening of the healing process and shortening of in-hospital stay.

[Early relaparotomy in the surgical treatment of abdominal viscera]. / Ranniaia relaparotomiia v khirurgii organov briushnoi polosti.

Analysis of 88 repeated surgical interventions after 4,017 operations on the abdominal organs showed the obvious advantages of early relaparotomy with the performance of laparostomy, according to indications, in patients with postoperative pyoinflammatory complications in the abdominal cavity. The mortality rate was 19.3% in early and 80.7% in delayed relaparotomy. A complex of symptoms was determined providing evidence of the development of postoperative pyoinlammatory complications and allowing substantiated indications for a repeated operation to be set.