[Use of autovenous tissue for treatment of patients with venous-aetiology lower-limb trophic ulcers].

The authors analyse herein the results of using removed dilated autologous veins simultaneously with operations aimed at correcting venous blood circulation in a total of fifty patients presenting with lower-limb trophic ulcers caused by varicose and postthrombotic diseases. The comparison group was composed of forty-four patients subjected to autodermoplasty. In the postoperative period all the patients used mechanical stimulation of angiogenesis for bettering and speeding up the process of healing and regeneration of trophic ulcers.

[Characteristics of postoperative period in children with funnel chest deformity after thoracoplasty].

The efficiency of postoperative analgesia using the epidural infusion of bupivacaine (0.2 mg/kg/hr) in 42 children and with opioid analgesics (1 mg per year of life) was studied in 17 children after Paltia thoracoplasty for funnel chest deformity. Analysis of hemodynamic and external respiratory parameters and visual pain scores demonstrated the high postoperative efficiency of analgesia using the epidural infusion of bupivacaine.