[Ways to improve the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical intestinal obstruction of a nontumorous nature].

The authors analyze the results of surgical treatment of 629 patients with acute ileus. In order to increase the diagnostic information value of the radiopaque dynamic investigation the authors propose to administer the liquid barium suspension through the probe introduced through the nose into the initial portion of the jejunum. It has been established that the level of content of the alkaline phosphatase intestinal fraction is an indirect index of the mesenterial blood circulation state. The experience of employment of visual angiometry for the assessment of vital capacity of the intestine and the size of its resection is described as well as other methods of decompression of the gastro-intestinal tract during the postoperative period.