A First Experience of Distant Lung Preservation for Transplantation in the Russian Federation.

Lung transplant is an effective method of treating patients with end-stage respiratory diseases, but problems such as the imbalance between the number of donor organs and the number ofrecipients needing organs still play a leading role. From a transplant point of view, a multiorgan donor is considered of greatest efficiency, so that all organs that can potentially be used should be transplanted. The combination of the vast geographical territory of Russia, the shortage of actual donors, and the relatively small number of transplant centers has led to the need to transport donor lungs by air over long distances.

[The features of diagnosis and treatment of traumatic and non-traumatic pulmonary bleeding].

Aim: To analyze an efficacy of differentiated approach for pulmonary bleeding of different etiology and severity.

Material And Methods: The study included 134 cases of pulmonary bleeding for the period 2006-2015 including 53 patients with traumatic and 81 with non-traumatic etiology. Men/women ratio was 2.

[Risk factors of suppurative complications in case of thoracic injury].

It was performed retrospective analysis of 463 cases of suppurative thoracic complications after injury (232) and closed thoracic trauma (231) for 20-year period. Incidence of purulent complications was 3.2% and 1.