Investigation of the microflora and the principles of treatment of infected open tissue defects.

Treatment of chronic defects of the body remains a difficult problem. Despite the achievements in reconstructive surgery, the failure incidence is high. Infection in the chronic defect region plays the leading role in the pathogenesis.

Microsurgery within reconstructive surgery of extremities.

Reconstructive surgery of extremities is an object of a special attention of surgeons. Vessel and nerve damages, deficiency of soft tissue, bone, associated with infection results in a complete loss of extremity function, it also raises a question of amputation. The goal of the study was to improve the role of microsurgery in reconstructive surgery of limbs.

[Monitoring of myocardial gases and evaluation of the viability of the preserved heart].

For the evaluation of the viability of a nonfunctioning stored heart, a system of myocardial gases (pO2, pCO2) monitoring was developed and approved . It is shown that myocardial pCO2 monitoring is most informative in evaluation of viability of a stored heart. The character of this curve makes it possible to identify the duration of storage admissible in each concrete case as well as the loss of viability by the heart.