[Unfavorable outcomes and complications of temporary occlusion of the bronchi]. / Neudovletvoritel'nye iskhody i oslozhneniia vremennoi okkliuzii bronkhov.

The authors possess experience in applying temporary bronchial occlusion (TBO) in 184 patients in whom the procedure was conducted 236 times. The outcomes of TBO were poor in 17.3% (32) of cases and complications occurred in 8.1% (15) of cases. The poor outcomes were due to ungrounded increase of the indications for the performance of TBO. Complications can be brought to minimum if TBO is conducted in specialized departments by experienced endoscopists-bronchologists.

[Peace-time abdominal gunshot wounds]. / Ognestre'lnye raneniia zhivota mirnogo vremeni.

From analysis of the results of surgical treatment of gunshot injuries of the abdomen in 55 patients the authors conclude that insufficient experience of surgeons in the treatment of such injuries is the main cause of pyogenic complications (51%). They failed, as a rule, to take into account the extent of the affection and the spread of the devitalized tissues, as a consequence of which unjustified economical and non-radical debridement was performed. Eleven patients (20%) died, seven of them, from peritonitis.