[Infusion of drugs through the umbilical vein]

In the clinic an infusion therapy via the umbilical vein was performed in 456 patients with various diseases of abdominal organs. Recanalization and catheterization of this vessel was accomplished both by intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal methods. Medical drugs infused in the umbilical vein would not differ from those routinely used for intravenous infusion in one of caval veins. The clinical results obtained indicate an outright advantage of this method infusion, especially in suppurative lesions of the liver and bile ducts.