[Surgical treatment of Taussig-Bing anomaly in children in the first year of life].

The history of surgical treatment, clinical features, and main variants of correction of Taussig-Bing anomaly in children during the first year of life is briefly reviewed including original data obtained in the Department of Urgent Surgery of newborn and first-year infants, A. N. Bakulev Research Centre of Cardiovascular Surgery for the period of 2000-2006.

[The use of modified ultrafiltration in correcting complex congenital heart defects in newborn and nursing infants].

Modified ultrafiltration (MUF) was used in radical correction of complex congenital heart disease in 61 newborns and infants. The children were divided into 2 groups: group 1, 46 patients subjected to MUF, and group 2, 15 children operated on without MUF. Hemodynamic, hematological, biochemical, and immunological parameters were monitored.

[Anatomic correction of transposition of the great arteries in infants:experience of the first 10 operations].

In the period March 1992 to January 1993, ten patients with transposition of great arteries (TGV) whose age ranged from 9 days to 8 months and body weight 3.2 to 7.2 kg were operated on using the arterial switch.

[Splenic perfusion in the combined treatment of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus].

Twenty patients suffering from severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) underwent 52 sessions of splenoperfusion (SP) by means of extracorporeal perfusion of the patient's blood through isolated porcine spleen. It got prepared directly before the perfusion. The organ was obtained from a healthy animal in sterile conditions, washed from the blood after cannulation of the artery and vein.