[Use of manual reflexotherapy for correcting biomechanical changes in the chest and the functional status of the diaphragmatic neuromuscular complex in patients with tuberculosis]. / Primenenie manual'noi refleksoterapii dlia korrektsii biomekhanicheskikh izmenenii v grudnoi kletke i funktsional'nogo sostoianiia diafragmal'nogo nervnomyshechnogo kompleksa u bol'nykh tuberkulezom.

Abnormal biomechanical changes of the osteoarticular and muscular apparatus of the chest were revealed by the method of manual diagnosis in all 72 examined patients in a tuberculosis clinic. They appeared as various functional blocks in the vertebral motor segments and regional postural muscle imbalance which was attended by lower lung ventilation capacity and dysfunction of the diaphragmatic neuromuscular complex. After the course of manual reflex therapy comprising mobilization, manipulations and postisometric relaxation, 80% of the patients felt easier respiration, lower chest stiffness. There was a significant increase of functional capacities of the external respiratory apparatus in all the patients.

[Experimental bioplasty of tuberculous caverns of the lung]. / Bioplastika tuberkuleznykh kavern legkogo v éksperimente.

A possibility of using allontransplants of the "Alloplant" series for pulmonary cavernoplasty has been developed and substantiated experimentally. Histological studies of an experimental pulmonary cavern under conditions of allotransplantation revealed the dynamics of the morphological transformation typical of human pulmonary cavern healing. A reparative process results in the liquidation of the specific changes in the cavern wall followed by the formation of a regenerate in the form of a stellate cicatrix.

[A method of thoracoscopic electrosurgical biopsy in the diagnosis of diffuse lung diseases]. / Metod torakoskopicheskoi élektrokhirurgicheskoi biopsii v diagnostike diffuznykh zabolevanii legkikh.

A new method of thoracoscopic electrosurgical biopsy proposed by the authors implies usage of a standard set of thoracoscopic appliances and a diathermic loop. The method warrants obtaining biopsy specimens of an adequate size from any site under visual control, provides reliable aero- and hemostasis.