[Systemic enzyme therapy in osteosynthesis of the long bones]

The authors focused their attention on the application of systemic enzyme therapy in traumatology, in particular on its anti-oedematous, fibrinolytic and analgetic effects during the postoperative period in osteosyntheses of the long bones. In a group of 40 patients they investigated postoperative changes of the volume of operated extremities. They found a very marked anti-oedematous effect of Phlogenzym. The authors draw attention to the great importance of anti-oedematous treatment and mention also possibilities of systemic enzyme therapy in this indication.