[Experience in hemoconcentration by ultrafiltration in operations using artificial circulation at the All-Union Scientific Center of Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences].

: The article deals with the results of using ultrafiltration hemoconcentration in 649 operations conducted on the open heart with extracorporeal circulation at the All-Union Scientific Center of Surgery, USSR AMS during 1983-1989. The method allows control of hemodilution and colloid-osmotic pressure of plasma during the indicated interventions, lessens the loss of blood, and reduces the expenditure of donor blood.