Keywords
minimally invasive surgical treatment
sanitation of the pleural cavity
duration of the disease
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Abstract
The use of video thoracoscopic interventions in patients with acute pleural empyema is gaining momentum in modern thoracic surgery. The need of determining the optimal timing of their implementation depending on the duration of the disease and the nature of changes in the parietal and visceral pleura remains open. The nature of changes in the parietal and visceral pleura of 249 patients with acute pleural empyema treated with video thoracoscopic interventions was evaluated. Patients were divided into 5 groups depending on the duration of the disease. It was determined that fibrinous accumulations in acute pleural empyema are replaced by cavity fragmenting formations after 6 weeks from the onset of the disease. The cessation of purulent exudate accumulation and the duration of pleural drainage after thoracoscopy depends on the duration of the disease at the time of thoracoscopy, as evidenced by the duration of pleural drainage in the period up to one month – 8 days from the onset of the disease, up to two months – 15 days, and after 8 weeks of duration – reached 20 days. The main indications for open surgical intervention in this group of patients were the failure of fractional lavage of the empyema cavity due to drainage or the impossibility of adequate rehabilitation according to the presence of a bronchopleural fistula with a duration of its existence of no more than 1 month and no tendency to closure. Inflammatory changes in the pleura in the form of fibrin deposits and cavity fragmentation in pleural empyema increase rapidly enough, the possibility of its effective rehabilitation during thoracoscopy without open surgical interventions is limited to 6 weeks from the onset of the disease.
Keywords: acute purulent diseases of the pleura, minimally invasive surgical treatment, sanitation of the pleural cavity, duration of the disease.
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