[Experience with vascular biografts "KemAngioprotez" in reconstructive surgery of lower-limb major arteries].

Presented herein is the experience with the Russian-made vascular biografts "KemAngioprotez" in 149 patients suffering from atherosclerotic occlusions of the major arteries of the lower extremities and in one female patient with an injury to the superficial femoral artery. A total of 150 reconstructive operations were performed on all segments of the major arterial bed of the lower limbs. The early postoperative period was accompanied by 14 thromboses of the vascular biograft after femoropopliteal reconstruction.

[Computed tomography in the diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism].

To verify the hypothetical diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism (RTE), 64 patients were provided CT of the chest organs with pulmonary artery opacification, Twenty-seven patients had thromboemboli in different parts of the vascular tree. In 9 patients, the thromboemboli were parietal, with flow preservation at the site of thromboembolus fixation, and in 18 patients, the emboli occluded the vascular lumen. In 11 patients with occlusion of the segmental and subsegmental arteries, the clinical course of RTE, in addition to acute cardiovascular insufficiency, was marked by cough, hemoptysis and pneumoinfarction; the tomograms showed well-defined parts of pneumoinfarction and pleural exudate.

[A tube scalpel for myocardial revascularization in patients with ischemic heart disease].

The paper describes a tube scalpel for fulfilling the basic stage of left ventricular myocardial tunneling. It shows great advantages of the proposed instrument over its prototype. The developed multifunctional tunnel-cutting scalpel is recommended for cardiac surgeons to use in their practice to enhance the efficiency and safety of left ventricular myocardial tunneling.

[Results of the treatment of complications of continuous electrocardiostimulation and methods of their prevention].

The authors suggest a classification of complications of continuous electrocardiostimulation. The results of surgical treatment of such complication in 138 patients are discussed. Methods for the prevention of the complications in 328 patients are described.