[Surgical treatment of bronchial fistulas after pneumonectomy].

The results of surgical treatment of 9 patients with bronchial fistulas after pneumonectomy have been analysed. During the reoperation the bronchial stump was wrapped by the omental flap with vascular pedicle (omentoplasty). In 6 patients omentoplasty was used in urgent repeated transpleural operations, in 3--during the late operations from transsternal transpericardial approach. Wedge resection of the tracheal bifurcation with omentoplasty from transsternal transpericardial approach was performed in 2 patients with a short bronchial stump. 2 patients died after surgery: one--from cardiopulmonary failure, the other one--from the relapse of bronchial fistula. Omentoplasty in patients with primary bronchial fistulas proved to be effective. It is advisable to perform reoperations during the 1st day after complications developed.