[Experiences with acute moderate controlled hemodilution (author's transl)].

The authors present an own method of hemodilution and experiences gained from 10 patients operated for chronic gastric or duodenal ulcer. The therapuetic results of the method show that it can be applied easely and safely in everyday surgical practice. In the patients treated with it no surgical and anaesthesiological complications could be observed during the operations as well as after them. The autors believe that the method of hemodilution for planned surgical operations will contribute to a more economical use of blood transfusions and to reduction in the occurrence of virus hepatitis.