[Cicatricial tracheal stenosis. Is prevention possible? A single-region experience].

Objective: To develop the measures for prevention and treatment of tracheal stenosis in various phases of disease.

Material And Methods: We analyzed 290 patients who underwent long-term mechanical ventilation between 2006 and 2021. The main causes of previous intensive care with prolonged ventilation were combined trauma and stroke.

Prevention of bronchial fistulas after pneumonectomies for selected cavitary drug resistant lung tuberculosis.

Background: The World Health Organization guidelines for management drug resistant tuberculosis include surgery as an additional method in selected cases. Pneumonectomies have higher risk of morbidity such as bronchial fistulas which may be prevented by bronchial stump covering. We compare two methods of bronchial stump reinforcement.

[Post-traumatic thoracic splenosis].

Splenosis is a rare disease and defined as spleen tissue autotransplantation following spleen rupture and subsequent splenectomy in most cases. The authors report ectopic splenic tissue in pleural cavity diagnosed in 31 years after blunt thoracoabdominal trauma.

[Hyperhidrosis: treatment, results, problems].

Objective: To analyze the results of thoracic sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis.

Material And Methods: The study included 166 patients aged from 15-51 years. There were 118 women and 48 men.

Endoscopic closure of a bronchopleural fistula after pneumonectomy with the Amplatzer occluder: a step forward?

Objectives: A bronchopleural fistula after pneumonectomy is a relatively rare but very serious complication. The development of endoscopic methods of treatment opens a new page in treating this condition. The goal of this paper was to confirm that the atrial septal defect Amplatzer device can be used for bronchopleural fistula closure in properly selected patients.