[A method for determining the body water compartments in patients with mechanical jaundice in the preoperative and postoperative periods].

Literature data concerning the techniques of body fluid determination in patients with mechanical jaundice in the pre- and postoperative periods have been briefly reviewed. A well-known technique of determining total, extra- and intracellular body fluid using urea, sodium rodonate and I13-albumin has been modified. The possibility of one-time determination of body fluids and the results of the author's studies are presented. It has been established that the preoperative period in patients with mechanical jaundice is characterized by considerable disturbances in fluid balance due mainly to total and extracellular body fluid; in the most severe cases there are changes in intracellular space volume. It has been established that upon correcting infusion therapy positive changes are observed on the second or third day of the postoperative period.