[Surgical treatment of a patient with tubular colonic duplication complicated by perforation and peritonitis].

We present successful treatment of a patient with tubular colonic duplication complicated by fecal impaction, perforation and fecal peritonitis. This anomaly is usually detected in children younger 2 years old. In adulthood, this diagnosis is of a precedent-setting nature.

The Differences in the Levels of Oxidative Status Marker and Soluble CD95 in Patients with Moderate to Severe COPD during an Exacerbation and a Stable Period.

Studying the features of changes in markers of oxidative stress (OS) and inflammation indicators in COPD patients depending on the degree of bronchial obstruction is one of the priority directions for improving the prognosis and monitoring of the course of this pathology. We conducted a comparative investigation of changes in markers of OS and apoptosis at the systemic and local levels in patients with moderate to severe COPD during exacerbation and stable phase. 105 patients with COPD aged 46-67 and 21 healthy nonsmoking volunteers comparable in age were examined.

[Staged approach in the treatment of patients with enterocutaneous fistulae].

Objective: To determine an optimal approach in the treatment of patients with intestinal fistulae.

Material And Methods: We have used the above-mentioned algorithm in the treatment of 46 patients. The majority of patients (=44, 96%) were transferred under supervision of our multidisciplinary team with severe water-electrolyte disturbances and signs of secondary protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) that required complex combined nutritional support.

The State of the Nitric Oxide Cycle in Respiratory Tract Diseases.

This review describes the unique links of the functioning of the nitric oxide cycle in the respiratory tract in normal and pathological conditions. The concept of a nitric oxide cycle has been expanded to include the NO-synthase and NO-synthase-independent component of its synthesis and the accompanying redox cascades in varying degrees of reversible reactions. The role of non-NO-synthase cycle components has been shown.

Relationship of Serum Levels of IL-17, IL-18, TNF-, and Lung Function Parameters in Patients with COPD, Asthma-COPD Overlap, and Bronchial Asthma.

Determination of markers of systemic inflammation is one of the important directions in the study of pathogenesis and improvement of diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma-COPD overlap (ACO), and bronchial asthma (BA). The aim of our work was a comparative study of the features of changes in serum levels of IL-17, IL-18, and TNF- in patients with COPD, ACO, and BA with various severity of the disease, as well as evaluation of the relationship between the level of these cytokines and lung ventilation function. A total of 147 patients with COPD ( = 58), ACO ( = 57), and BA ( = 32) during a stable period have been examined in this study.