Diseases of the lungs, bronchi and pleura (pulmonology)

Tuberculosis: why get a preventive health checkup?

Since Soviet times, many people have had the impression that a preventive examination is a formality that the doctor makes you do. Alas...

Necrotizing paraproctitis

The allocation of necrotic paraproctitis into a separate group is due to both the extent and severity of the infection of the fatty tissue, muscles and fascia in the rectum and perineum, and the specifics of treatment. The disease necrotic paraproctitis is characterized by rapid generalization of infection, development of multiple organ dysfunction and requires necrectomy and intensive therapy.

Hypoxia

Hypoxia is oxygen deficiency, a condition that occurs when there is insufficient supply of oxygen to the body's tissues or a disruption in its utilization in the process of biological oxidation, accompanies many pathological conditions, being a component of their pathogenesis and clinically manifested by hypoxic syndrome, which is based on hypoxemia.

Treatment for tracheitis

Treatment of tracheitis depends on the cause of this inflammatory disease and the general health of the patient. The trachea is a kind of tube that continues the larynx, connecting with the bronchi.

Lung damage

Lung damage should be diagnosed by doctors of any specialty, although clarifying diagnostics are carried out by therapists, pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons. The most common lung damage is inflammatory diseases: bronchitis and pneumonia, but it is necessary to clarify the concepts.

Mendelsohn syndrome

Mendelson's syndrome is aspiration of a chemically aggressive substrate with subsequent burn and development of hyperergic reaction of the respiratory tract. Development of chemical burn of the respiratory tract mucosa can be caused by the effect of acidic, enzyme-rich gastric juice.

Acute severe asthma

Acute severe asthma is severe bronchospasm in a patient with a history of asthma. What causes acute severe asthma? History of asthma with previous emergency hospitalizations. Respiratory tract infections. Triggers such as stress, cold, exercise, smoking, allergen. Premature or low birth weight infants.

Application of plasmapheresis in the complex therapy of idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis

Idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis (IFI) is one of the most common and, at the same time, poorly understood diseases from the group of interstitial lung diseases.

Video thoracoscopy in the surgical treatment of pleural empyema

Empyema of the pleura in most cases is a complication of inflammatory and purulent-destructive diseases of the lungs, injuries and surgical interventions on the organs of the chest and is the most complex section in thoracic surgery.

Features of the course of pneumonia in pregnancy

One of the priority areas in the development of national healthcare is ensuring safe motherhood and childhood. This issue is extremely relevant due to the decrease in the population of healthy mothers, which leads to an increase in perinatal pathology.