[Economic efficacy of thoracoscopic treatment for pleural empyema in children].

Results of treatment carried out during 1989-2000 years were analyzed in 164 children with pleural empyema. Economic analysis proves that videothoracoscopic pleural cavity sanation is more beneficial in acute period in 1.7 times and in long-term period--in 1.

[Diagnostics and thoracoscopic treatment of pleural empyema in younger children].

174 children of all ages with acute destructive pneumonia complicated with pleural empyema were treated during 10 ten years using videothoracoscopic method; among them 74 children were of younger age (43%). General principles of modern diagnostics and videothoracoscopic pleural cavity sanations were formulated. Ultrasonography and computer tomography of the chest carried out in younger children give possibilities for clear differential diagnostics with other diseases.

[The diagnosis and surgical treatment of hydatid disease of the liver in children].

An experience with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of hydatid disease of the liver included 191 patients aged from 2 through 15 years, 26 of them had a combined involvement of the liver and lung, in 7 patients there were combined lesions with other organs. Complicated echinococcosis was noted in 25 children. Ultrasonography was given the main role in the diagnosis.

[Anesthesiologic support of videothorascopic operations in children with pleural empyema].

Total anesthesia for videothoracoscopic operations in children with pleural empyema is difficult because of severe clinical status and single-lung ventilation. Hemodynamics, blood gases, and oxygen transport were studied in 35 children aged 1.5-14 years with ASA class II-III.

[Characteristics of general anesthesia in video thoracoscopic surgery in children].

Videothoracoscopic operations were carried out in 54 patients aged 6 months to 14 years. Two variants of general anesthesia were used: bolus injection of fentanyl in combination with calypsol and infusion of fentanyl in combination with subnarcotic doses of fluothane. One-lung ventilation was carried out in all children.