[Use of autologous blood for elimination of the residual pleural cavity after pneumonectomy]. / Primenenie autokrovi dlia likvidatsii ostatochnoi plevral'noi polosti posle rezektsii legkikh.

ABSTRACT

The authors describe a method of liquidation of a postresectional residual cavity by the introduction of the patient's autoblood with antibiotics. When using this method all the factors of the coagulating system of blood are involved in the formation of fibrin and the following formation of fibrothorax, which accelerates the formation of fibrothorax. The proposed method was used in 26 patients with residual pleural cavities after resection of the lungs and facilitated their liquidation and formation of fibrothorax.