[Hormonal and metabolic criteria of the adequacy of anesthesia during surgery of nephroblastoma in children].

The data are presented on changes in hypophyseal-adrenal system and carbohydrate metabolism during transperitoneal nephrectomy in 42 children aged 1 to 15 years with stage II-III tumors. In 22 patients surgery was performed under combined neuroleptanalgesia with halothane for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. In 20 patients halothane was replaced by diazepam. Glucose, insulin, ACTH, CTH, hydrocortisone, lactic and pyruvic acid levels, total activity of LDG, its isoenzymes and cAMP have been assessed at different stages of anesthesia and surgery.