Changes in the immunological indices of patients with obstructive jaundice and liver cirrhosis during the extracorporeal connection of a pig spleen

: The immunologic indices were studied in 29 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and obstructive jaundice, who had the porcine spleen been connected according to the conventional technique, and in 17 patients of the control group. The blood was collected in dynamics. The positive effect of the method on the immune status of the patients, which manifested itself in activation of a T-link of immunity, normalization of the indices of B-link, decrease in the severity of intoxication due to elimination of the middle molecular mass peptides and circulating immune complexes, was noted.