[Differential surgical treatment of liver cirrhosis]

The work analyzes the data of treatment of 144 patients with the cirrhotic process in the liver. The patients were subjected to 196 different operations. Surgical interventions were fulfilled depending on the stage of cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis--precirrhosis included. To diagnoze and determine the stage of the cirrhotic process the authors used a complex of investigations including the summary assessment of the liver function by the formula developed in the clinic, radioisotopic diagnosis, laparoscopy with target puncture biopsy, splenoportography, lymphography. The cirrhosis stage and the degree of hepatic insufficiency determined the choice of periarterial hepatic neurectomy. Marginal resection of the liver was performed in chronic hepatitis and the initial stage of cirrhosis.