[Effectiveness of collagen plasty in complex treatment of localized pyopneumothorax].

The work is based on an analysis of results of treatment of 25 patients with localized pleuro-pulmonary cavities by the methods of minor surgery. During abscessoscopy collagen was placed on the wound surface, the surface was filled with fibronectin and followed by active aspiration within 12-24 hours. In 20 (80%) patients the lung was expanded earlier.

[The use of late temporary bronchial occlusion in the combined treatment of patients with acute suppurative lung abscesses].

The article presents results of late temporary occlusion of bronchi for prevention of chronicalization of the inflammatory process in 34 patients with acute purulent abscesses of the lungs. Formation of the dry residual cavity with the diameter of 2 cm and more was taken as an indication for such intervention. As a result of the treatment complete recovery was noted in 18 patients (52.

Real-time ultrasound imaging for predicting ovine fetal age.

Fetal head width and thoracic depth were observed via real-time ultrasound imaging in 12 single-, 12 twin- and 4 triplet-bearing BooroolaxSouth Australian Merino ewes at weekly intervals during mid pregnancy. Fetal age varied by a maximum of 24 h. Relationships between fetal age and the linear measures (head width, thoracic depth) were determined within litter size categories, using both linear and quadratic terms.

[Healing of meningo-cerebral wounds with a combination of plastic repair and hydrocortisone therapy under clinical and experimental conditions].

An analysis of 192 experiments has demonstrated that layer-wise plastic repair of osteal-meningeal cerebral injuries helps layer-wise reparation of individual tissues, since the implants serve as guiding membranes for the healing of individual layers of the brain and scull. Hydrocortisone therapy diminishes the development of gross collagen fibers, and causes the formation of a loose glial scar from a wide-looped network of processes of fibrill-forming astrocytes; 127 clinical observations of hydrocortisone therapy with layer-wise plastic repair of the brain and scull, followed-up for to 10 years, demonstrated that this method favours the prevention of epilepsy.