Triterpenoids of Plants of Glycyrrhiza L. and Meristotropis Fisch. et Mey Genuses (A Review)

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Optimization of strategy of surgical treatment for acute destructive pancreatitis

Results of surgical treatment of 142 patients with acute destructive pancreatitis were analyzed. The treatment of patients was divided into two periods. The first period included 59 (41.5%) patients when active surgical strategy was used. The second period of observations included 83 (53.5%) patients with the optimized strategy of treatment based on intensive therapy, prognosis of the course of the disease, new antibacterial medicines and new technologies of operative treatment. A comparison of the results of treatment has revealed the advantages of using the optimized strategy and allowed the postoperative lethality to be reduced from 59.3 to 32.5%.     

Phenolic compounds of the genera Glycyrrhiza L. and Meristotropis Fisch. et Mey. (review)

Data for 280 phenolic compounds from closely related plants of the genera Glycyrrhiza and Meristotropis were compiled completely for the first time. The biochemical classification of these compounds was given. Issues of their chemical structure and chemical systematics were discussed. Promising areas for further study and practical application of plants from these genera were identified. __________ Translated from Khimiko-Farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 30–52, July, 2007.