[Use of external drainage of the thoracic duct and lymphosorption in the complex treatment of acute diffuse peritonitis].

In 47 patients with acute generalized peritonitis in the complex of therapeutic measures, the external drainage of the thoracic duct (EDTD) with subsequent lymphosorption (LS) was used. The effectiveness of treatment was judged about by the lymph and blood toxicity, and as well by contents of peptides with the molecular mass of from 300 to 1000 dalton. In favourable course of the postoperative period, the increase in lymph debit and decrease in proteolytic enzyme activity in the lymph and blood were noted. The use of EDTD and LS in the complex with the other methods of treatment permitted to achieve a clinical effect in 76.6% of cases.