[Clinico-experimental studies of the effect of the form of anesthesia on the postoperative small intestinal absorption].

The behaviour of the small bowel absorption in the immediate postoperative phase after cholecystectomy was tested in 20 patients by means of the modified D-xylose-test. Either the conventional insufflation anesthesia with halothane or the neuroleptic analgesia was used in 10 patients in each case. Characteristic changes of the small bowel absorption were provable after the operation. The postoperative restriction of the absorption was not changed statistically significantly in dependence on the different anesthesia methods. An absorption without restriction exists in both groups at the beginning of the 3rd post-operative day.