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Thoracic hematogenic endometriosis is a rare pathology. A clinical course hasn't pathognomic symptoms, because of it, the diagnosis is established due to histological study. The article presented two cases of female patients, who were suffering from thoracic endometriosis. They were hospitalized to the department of thoracic surgery of Municipal multifield hospital No 2 in Saint-Petersburg. The first patient had a posterior mediastinum tumor with asymptomatic disease course. The second patient was with recurrent catamenial pneumothorax.
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Endometriosis , Pneumothorax , Thoracic Diseases , Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted/methods , Adult , Endometriosis/complications , Endometriosis/diagnosis , Endometriosis/physiopathology , Endometriosis/surgery , Female , Humans , Mediastinum/pathology , Middle Aged , Pneumothorax/etiology , Pneumothorax/surgery , Thoracic Diseases/complications , Thoracic Diseases/diagnosis , Thoracic Diseases/physiopathology , Thoracic Diseases/surgery , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Lung transplantation is one of the most difficult fields of contemporary transplantology. The operation was performed on a 53-year-old female who had been suffering from terminal stage COPD. The period of cold ischemia for the right and left lung was 1 hour 30 minutes and 2 hours 25 minutes respectively. The total operation time was 4 hours and 40 minutes. There were no surgical complications. There were no signs of transplant rejection 6 weeks after the operation. The considerable decrease in dispnea and increase in quality of life were registered during the follow-up. FEV1 was increased by 80% and 6 minute walk test distance was increased by 200 meters.
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Lung Transplantation/methods , Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary/drug therapy , Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary/microbiology , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Russia , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
A retrospective analysis of 198 patients (164 men and 28 women) with the first episode of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) was made. All the patients underwent diagnostic thoracoscopy (DT) under local anesthesia before insertion of a chest tube. For 115 patients the chest tube thoracoscopy was the only treatment procedure (group I) and 77 patients underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) wedge (atypical) resection and pleurectomy (group II). The patients were followed-up from 13 through 77 months. In group I there were 19 recurrences (16.5%), and only two recurrences in group II. In patients of group II having no pathological changes there were no recurrences while in group I there were two (3.3%). The recurrence rate in patients with pathological changes (II, III and IV stages of Vanderschuren classification) was 3% after VATS and as high as 31.5% after the chest tube treatment. The diagnostic thoracoscopy should be performed in all patients with the first episode of PSP for the assessment of the lung and pleura condition. The presence of any pathological changes points to a high risk of recurrences and should be considered as an indication for antirelapse measures (VATS). Surgery is not necessary when no morphological alterations are revealed at DT.
