[Anaerobic paraproctitis].

The authors had 80 patients, most of them (90%) of an old age, with anaerobic paraproctitis. Delayed hospitalization was encountered in 62 cases, in 16 of these cases an erroneous diagnosis had been established. Severe concomitant diseases complicated the course of anaerobic paraproctitis in 80% of cases (in each group of three patients one had diabetes mellitus). The authors describe characteristic clinical manifestations and the course of various forms of anaerobic paraproctitis, the results of bacteriological examination, and the order in which the surgical treatment is applied. They suggest a scheme of drug therapy which is maximally approximated to cleansing of a microbial cenosis, including ultraviolet irradiation of the blood. All these measures allowed the mortality rate to be decreased from 33.3% to 17.7%.