Principles of treatment of nonparasitic cysts of the liver

A comparative investigation of different methods of treatment of nonparasitic cysts of the liver was carried out in 104 patients aged from 21 through 74 years with sizes of the cysts from 6 to 21 cm in diameter, divided into three groups. The first group included 50 patients who were subjected to open operations (segmentectomy, bisegmentectomy, fenestration of the cysts with treatment of the residual inner lining with ethanol, diathermocoagulation or cryodestruction). Laparoscopic fenestration and chemical or thermal treatment of the cysts were used in the second group of 29 patients, in the third group consisting of 25 patients a puncture-aspiration method was used under sonographic control. An analysis of the results showed advantages of laparoscopic and puncture methods that gave good immediate and long-term results, less number of postoperative complications and shorter periods of rehabilitation of the patients.     

Means of reducing blood loss and volume of the used transfused media in operative treatment of burn lesions of the liver

An experience with surgical treatment of 77 patients with focal lesions of the liver is described. The patients were divided into two groups. In the main group (42 patients) the treatment-and-prophylactic method was used including acute isovolemic and hypervolemic hemodilution, preliminary preparation of autoblood, isolation and ligation of the vascular-secretory elements, the application for local hemostasis with Takhokomb of "Tissucol", gelatinous sponge with gentamycin. In the group of comparison the compression of the hepatoduodenal ligament, isolation of the vascular-secretory elements by digitoclasia method, suturing the liver stump with polysorb were used in resection of the liver. The strategy used in the main group allowed to reduce the volume of blood loss, to lessen the number of doses of the transfused donor blood, to diminish the number of postoperative complications by 30.5%. The used complex is effective, simple and is not expensive.