[An index assessment of the degree of the respiratory failure in funnel chest]. / Indeksnaia otsenka stepeni dykhatel'noi nedostatochnosti pri voronkoobraznoi deformatsii grudnoi kletki.

An evaluation was done of respiratory failure in 149 children aged 3 to 15 presenting with funnel-shaped chest deformity (FCD). An original classification is suggested of degree of respiratory failure in FCD in children. Based on the index assessment of clinical and functional parameters an outline has been worked out for degree of respiratory failure. The criteria obtained are statistically significant; being able of giving quantitative assessment of degree of respiratory failure they can serve as control figures to be used in evaluations designed to study time course of changes in respiratory failure.

[The mobility of the diaphragm in funnel chest deformity studied by ultrasonic scanning]. / Izuchenie podvizhnosti diafragmy pri voronkoobraznoi deformatsii grudnoi kletki s pomoshch'iu ul'trazvukovogo skanirovaniia.

Overall forty children with funnel chest were studied for mobility of the upper cupula of the diaphragm by longitudinal echo scanning of the liver. Quantitative data were obtained that may serve as one of the criteria for determining the degree of deformity and its progress with time.

[Remote thermography in funnel-shaped chest deformity in children]. / Primenenie distantsionnoi termografii pri voronkoobraznoi deformatsii grudnoi kletki u detei.

Examined were 47 children with a funnel-shaped chest deformity and 18 healthy children (control group) ranging in age from 2 to 14 years. Thermal fields of the chest and hands were registered. New data characterizing the degree of pronouncement of chest deformity and heart shift were obtained. In patients with bronchopulmonary diseases, the areas of hyperthermia corresponding to inflammatory process location were noted. Thermography of the hands permitted, to obtain the data characterizing the pronouncement of respiratory failure.