[Diagnostic and treatment of foreign bodies of the upper digestive tract].

Objective: To evaluate the results of diagnosis and treatment of foreign bodies of the upper gastrointestinal tract.

Material And Methods: There were 1187 patients aged 15-99 years with suspected foreign body of the upper gastrointestinal tract. In 536 patients (266 men, 270 women), foreign bodies were detected.

[Endoscopic bronchial valve treatment of bronchopleural fistala and air leakage].

Objective: To evaluate an effectiveness of endobronchial valve treatment of patients with bronchopleural fistulas and prolonged air leakage.

Material And Methods: Endobronchial valve treatment was analyzed in 115 patients with bronchopleural fistulas or postoperative air leakage. All patients were divided into 5 groups depending on disease: bullous emphysema, acute purulent lung diseases, chronic purulent lung and pleural diseases, bullous emphysema complicated by pneumothorax with failed pleural cavity, other lung diseases associated with prolonged postoperative air leakage.

[Diagnostics and treatment of patients with giant leiomyoma of the esophagus].

Diagnostics and surgical treatment of 2 patients with giant esophageal leiomyoma are reported. The diagnosis was confirmed by chest computed tomography, MRI of the mediastinum, endoscopic ultrasound. Resection of tumor with mucosa suturing and Nissen fundoplication was performed in 1 case.

[Treatment of patient with echinococcosis of lungs and mediastinum].

It is presented diagnosis and treatment of 53-year-old man with multiple echinococcosis of the lungs and mediastinum. The diagnosis was confirmed by chest CT. Patient previously underwent surgery for liver echinococcosis.

[Esophageal cancer after chemical burn].

Aim: To analyze patients with chemical burn of esophagus followed by cancer.

Material And Methods: Since 2010 till 2017 esophageal cancer has been diagnosed in 4 patients with esophageal cicatrical stenosis after previous chemical burn. Cervical segment of the esophagus was involved in 1 case.

Ultrastructure of Cardiomyocytes and Blood Capillary Endotheliocytes in the Myocardium under Conditions of Experimental Mechanical Injury to the Heart.

We studied ultrastructural changes in cardiomyocytes and blood capillary endotheliocytes in the ventricular myocardium in response to mechanical injury of the heart of varying severity in Wistar rats. Acute alterative changes in cardiomyocyte and endotheliocyte ultrastructure indicate impairment of the energy-producing, contractile, and protein-synthesizing functions of the cells after mechanical injury. These disorders play the key role in the development of acute contractile insufficiency of the myocardium in mechanical injury to the heart.

Morphological Characteristics of the Cartilaginous Tissue of Human Auricle in Different Age Periods.

A complex morphological study of the auricle to determine the human age was performed by evaluating the metric sizes between fixed points in each auricle with axial guidelines. The auricular elastic cartilage in different age periods was characterized by thickening of the cartilaginous plate, different mature and immature cartilage zone ratio, variations in the volume density of the intercellular substance and elastic fibers, and change in the numerical density of individual chondrocytes and isogroups. Aggrecan content in the cartilage was shown to increase in different age periods.

[The expert observation of myocardial contusion in a child].

A case of the myocardial contusion associated with the closed blunt chest injury in the girl aged 1 year 7 months is presented. The autopsy revealed hemorrhage of an irregular oval shape, coloured dark-red, and confined to the region with the area of 4.0 x 3.

[Amniotic fluid embolism as a cause of maternal death].

This article reports the case of death of a puerperal woman resulting from amniotic fluid embolism. The diagnosis was established based on the results of the pathohistological study that revealed the presence of mucoproteides and epithelial scales in pulmonary blood vessels and capillaries.

LEVEL OF THE GUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PATIENTS AFTER ESOPHAGOPLASTY ON THE BASIS OF GASTROINTESTINAL INDEX ASSESSMENT.

The article presents the interview results of 55 patients after esophagoplasty (30 cases - after esophagogastroplasty, 25 cases - after esophagoplasty) using questionnaire GIQLI. The authors came to conclusions about advantages of extirpation of esophagus with esopagogastroplasty compared with subtotal shunt esophagocoloplasty because of high rate of gastrointestinal index of the quality of life and their components in patients after esophagogastroplasty compared with results of patients after esophagoplasty. There was noted an expessed growth in the scales and rise of gastrointestinal index in patients who underwent esophagogastroplasty after 3 years of follow-up.

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THORACOSCOPY AND DESTRUCTION OF PULMONARY BULLAS COMBINED WITH PLEURODESIS AND PLEURECTOMY.

The article presents the results of thoracoscopic surgeries in case of bullous emphysema of the lung in 88 patients. The patients have been divided into 2 groups according to the method of treatment: 1) destruction of pulmonary bullas and pleurodesis using diathermic electrocoagulation (42 people); 2) destruction of pulmonary bullas and subtotal pleurectomy (47 people). The operative periods weren’t statistically differentiated in patient’s groups.

MEDIASTINOSCOPY IN SURGERY OF BENIGN DISEASES OF ESOPHAGUS AND CARDIAC ORIFICE.

An article presents the results of application of mediatinoscopy in extirpation of the esophagus and cardiac orifice. The comparative assessment was made in group of patients who underwent the standard surgery. An application of mediastinoscopy for excretion and extirpation of the esophagus allowed doctors to cut down the duration of intervention on 40,15%.

TRA.NSTHORACIC PUNCTURE BIOPSY IN DIAGNOSTICS OF FOCAL LESIONS OF THE LUNG.

The transthoracic puncture biopsy was performed under surveillance of X-ray computed tomography in order to verify diagnoses in 80 patients with lung tumors. This procedure allowed verification of diagnosis and choice of treatment strategy in 95% of cases. The complications obtained as result of intervention didn’t bring severe character and were arrested in term of two days.

[DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT OF BOERHAAVE'S SYNDROME].

The article presents the results of diagnostics and treatment of 12 patients with Boerhaave's syndrome (men--9, women-- 3). The age of the patients was 19-68 years old. The prescription of spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus was 7 h-2 days from moment of the rupture to hospital admission.

Cell reactions in gastric tube and colon transplants in stenoses of esophageal anastomosis.

We studied morphological and cell characteristics of stenosis of esophagogastric and esophagocolonic anastomosis. It was demonstrated that sclerogenesis in the gastric transplants is associated with hypertrophy of leiomyocytes, hyperelastosis foci, degenerative and atrophic modifications of the glands, and foveolar cell hypersecretion. In colonic transplant, collagen synthesis predominates in the esophageal anastomosis and can be associated with proliferation of blood capillaries; hyperplastic reactions of leiomyocytes and elastic fibers are minor, colonocytes exhibit high secretory activity.

Effect of esophagoplasty on structural reorganization of colon transplant.

We studied ultrastructural reorganization of the colon transplant in delayed period after esophagoplasty. It was found that during functioning of the artificial esophagus, a complex of adaptive and pathologic processes occurs in the mucosa. Focal sclerosis of the mucosa and slight epithelial degeneration with hyperplasia and hypersecretion of goblet cells were found in biopsy specimens with stenosis of the anastomosis.

Cell reorganization in gastric transplant during esophagoplasty.

We studied peculiarities of cell reorganization of the gastric transplant during the delayed period after esophagoplasty for benign pathologies of the esophagus. Polymorphism of adaptive and pathological structural rearrangements in the mucosa of the gastric tube was observed. Degenerative and atrophic changes in epithelial structures, hypertrophy of smooth muscular components, and sclerotic reorganization of the stroma were predominating morphological phenomena.

Structural modifications of colonic transplant in plastic repair of the esophagus.

Structural changes in the colonic transplant were studied after esophagoplasty, carried out for post-burn cicatricial strictures of the esophagus. It was shown that artificial esophagus was liable to hypotony and deformation in delayed periods after reconstructive interventions. Regeneratory and adaptive reactions in the mucosa underlie its restructuring, while under pathological conditions proliferative catarrhal changes predominated in the artificial esophagus.