[Infectious complications after splenectomy in patients with cirrhosis of the liver]

Based on an examination of 105 patients with cirrhosis of the liver with the syndrome of portal hypertension complicated by gastroduodenal bleedings who were subjected to splenectomy (in 86 patients there were proximal splenorenal anastomoses) the authors make a conclusion that infectious complications in the postoperative period in the group under analysis were developing against the background of the concomitant and predisposing conditions and can be compared in their incidence with infectious complications after other similar in severity operative interventions on organs of the abdominal cavity. In remote terms after operation the normalization of the indices of both cellular and humoral immunity was noted.