[The efficacy of the extracorporeal connection of a porcine spleen in early and late septic complications in patients with burns]. / Effektivnost' ékstrakorporal'nogo podkliucheniia selezenki svin'i pri rannykh i pozdnikh septicheskikh oslozhneniiakh u bol'nykh s ozhogami.

Extracorporeal connection of a porcine spleen (ECCPS) was used in 36 patients ranging in age from 14 to 60 years with a IIIAB-IV degree burn of from 30 to 80% of a body surface. The clinical signs of infective complications were the indication for ECCPS. The immunomodulating effect of ECCPS in burn septicotoxemia and normalizing effect on the morphofunctional state of neutrophil granulocytes without normalization of cellular immunity in toxemia was established.