[Therapeutic choices in spontaneous pneumothorax].

Questions of conservative and operative treatment are considered on the basis of studying 259 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax. In most of the patients the lung was spreaded by a single or permanent active aspiration of air from the pleural cavity. However, due to great amount of recurrences after the conservative treatment it should be more often followed by operative methods of treatment.

[Pathogenetic substantiation of photomodification of autologous blood in the prevention and treatment of complications of closed chest trauma].

Three groups of patients with traumas of the chest were investigated: 1. 1533 patients treated by traditional methods: 2. 258 patients treated by transfusions of photo-modified blood; 3.

[Closed chest trauma].

Problems of the clinical course, diagnostics and prophylactics of complications are discussed on the material of observation of 1533 patients with closed traumas of the chest. The program of medical measures included adequate anesthesia, measures of normalization of respiration, gas exchange and correction of metabolic alterations. Main indications to operation were as follows: continuous intrapleural hemorrhage, not effective active drainage in pneumothorax and compression of mediastinal organs.