Specific Features of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patients' Cytokine Profile.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a systemic autoimmune disease that affects the joints, leading to disability. Cytokines and signaling molecules expressed by the immune system cells play a key role in JIA pathogenesis. Understanding how their content changes during pathology development can open up new opportunities for its diagnosis and treatment.

[Are large adrenal neoplasms technical limitation for laparoscopic adrenalectomy?].

Aim: To study surgical features of laparoscopic adrenalectomy in patients with large adrenal neoplasms.

Material And Methods: The results of 32 laparoscopic adrenalectomy procedures were analyzed in patients with adrenal neoplasms over 5 cm. The control group consisted of 67 patients with adrenal neoplasms up to 5 cm.

[The minimally invasive video-assisted parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism].

Aim: To study feasibility, effectiveness and safety of minimally invasive video-assisted parathyroidectomy in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism; to define the advantages and disadvantages of this technique compared with conventional open surgery.

Material And Methods: The study includes the results of 33 minimally invasive video-assisted parathyroidectomies performed in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. The control group included 36 patients who underwent conventional open surgery.

[The place of endovideosurgical interventions in treatment of inguinal hernias].

Endovideosurgical hernioplasty was performed in 3020 patients. Complex forms of inguinal hernias were diagnosed in 280 of them. These forms included: bilateral and combined inguinal hernias, inguinoscrotal hernias, sliding hernias, fixed and irreducible inguinal hernias, recurrent inguinal hernias after traditional herniorrhaphy and recurrent hernias after endovideosurgical hernioplasty.

[Complications of endovideosurgical repair of inguinal and femoral hernias].

On the basis of an experience with 1800 operations of endovideosurgical hernioplasty in patients with inguinal and femoral hernias, the authors analyze the frequency and character of complications after such operations. Complications were noted in 37 (2.05%) patients.