[Detoxification of the body by means of lymphosorption in wound peritonitis]

Lymphosorption was used in 23 patients with diffuse wound peritonitis within 4--6 days in the complex of measures in order to detoxicate the organism. It resulted, as a rule, in decreased ammonemia, normalized residual nitrogen and urea and in the disappearance of erythrocytes from the lymph. Eighteen patients recovered, 5 patients died of progressing peritonitis and hepatic insufficiency.