Modifications to the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery technique reduce 1-year mortality and postoperative complications in intrathoracic tumors.

Objective: The purpose of the study is to analyze the immediate outcomes and results of video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy and lung resection performed in the surgical department of the AOC between 2014 and 2018.

Methods: For the period from 2014 to 2018, 118 patients with peripheral lung cancer were operated on in the surgical department of the AOC. The following operations were performed: lobectomy in 92 cases (78%), of which: upper lobectomy, 44 (47.

Conformational and Supramolecular Aspects in Chirality of Flexible Camphor-Containing Schiff Base as an Inducer of Helical Liquid Crystals.

The experimental and theoretical study of influence of the conformational state and association on the chirality of the stereochemically nonrigid biologically active bis-camphorolidenpropylenediamine (CPDA) and its ability to induce the helical mesophase of alkoxycyanobiphenyls liquid-crystalline binary mixture was carried out. On the basis of quantum-chemical simulation of the CPDA structure, four relatively stable conformers were detected. A comparison of the calculated and experimental electronic circular dichroism (ECD) and H, C, N NMR spectra, as well as specific optical rotation and dipole moments, allowed to establish the most probable trans-gauche conformational state (tg) of dicamphorodiimine and CPDA dimer with a predominantly mutually parallel arrangement of molecular dipoles.