Publications by authors named "Grigorii Kudriashov"
Article Synopsis
- Surgery for tuberculosis is increasingly important in current medical practices.
- The article outlines key points like when surgery is necessary, when it's not, and unique aspects of the operations.
- This information is beneficial for surgeons and healthcare professionals focusing on treating pulmonary tuberculosis.
Surgery is one of the current options in cases of pulmonary tuberculosis with failed medication treatment. Lobectomy and bi-lobectomy constitute up to one third of all surgical procedures in such cases. Nevertheless, fibrotic changes near the hilar structures and lymph nodes are limitation factors for spread of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) anatomical pulmonary resection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFirst VATS thymectomy was performed 25 years ago (Landreneau ., 1992). After that, minimally invasive approaches for surgical procedures have rapidly increased in the world.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurgery of pulmonary tuberculosis associated with open thoracotomy due to dense pleural and vascular adhesions. These reasons limited the use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in these cases. Robotic surgical system aimed to performing successfully minimally invasive operations for pulmonary tuberculosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Cavitary disease and bilateral lesions are among the risk factors for poor outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Our aim was to explore the value and limits of surgery in patients with advanced TB.
Methods: A retrospective study of 57 consecutive patients who underwent thoracic surgery for culture-positive bilateral cavitary pulmonary TB was performed.