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ВведениеХарактерной особенностью последних десяти-летий является увеличение частоты рецидивов ту-беркулеза как после терапевтического, так и после хирургического лечения [1,2,5,8,13]. Многие хи-рурги связывали это в первую очередь с увеличени-ем частоты лекарственной устойчивости микобак-терий туберкулеза [3,6,20,21].Несмотря на все возрастающую роль хирургии в лечении легочного туберкулеза и ее высокую непо-средственную эффективность, проблема послеопе-рационных рецидивов туберкулеза остается серьез-ным сдерживающим фактором на пути ее широкого применения. Частота послеоперационных рециди-вов, по данным изученной нами литературы, со-ставляет в среднем 5,7% и имеет в последние годы тенденцию к увеличению.

Background: The long history of the struggle against tuberculosis (TB) inspired us to develop a new minimally invasive technique of thoracoplasty with videothoracoscope control (VATP). The aim of this study was to determine its efficacy.Methods: We conducted a retrospective single-center study of a cohort of patients operated on between 1999 and 2017. Two hundred eight patients who were indicated for thoracoplasty with verified TB with cavities in the upper lobe/S6 were enrolled in this study. Treatment outcomes were assessed based on Laserson criteria and active TB absence verified with CT.Results: Intraoperative and postoperative complications were observed in 15 (7.2%) and 4 (2.0%) cases, respectively. There were no 30-day mortalities. VATP with curative intent succeeded in 88% of cases according to Laserson criteria and active TB absence verified with computed tomography (CT). Clinical improvement (sputum negativity, closure of caverna, and lack of reactivation for 3 years) was achieved in 81% of cases. Conclusions: Comparing the successful results of this technique in the cohort of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB patients with the outcomes of treatment of MDR TB worldwide (77% vs. 55%, respectively), the VATP technique is shown to be efficacious and thus recommended.Clinical trial registry number: ISRCTN67743278.

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Congenital malformations of the bronchopulmonary system in combination with tuberculosis are extremely rare in practice, but they usually require surgical treatment. This combination often causes diagnostic difficulties.Characteristics of children and research methods. We have analyzed the experience of surgical treatment of a combination of various congenital lung defects and tuberculosis in 20 children. 9 (45%) children had lung sequestration, 4 (20%) children had lung hypoplasia, 5 (25%) children had congenital bronchiectasis, 1 (5%) child had arteriovenous malformation, and 1 (5%) child had a congenital lung cyst. There were 3 segmental resections, 15 lobeand bilobectomies, and 3 pneumonectomies. All surgeries were performed using minimally invasive approaches (VATS).Results. 11 (55%) patients had diagnostic difficulties of concomitant pathology. Only in 5 (25%) cases they found mycobacteria in sputum before surgery. Postoperative study of material from tuberculous lesions helped to establish multidrug resistance of mycobacterium tuberculosis and to change the chemotherapy regimen in 3 (15%) patients. There were no postoperative complications or deaths. All surgeries were effective. Long-term results were studied in 16 (80%) of 20 patients over a period from 1 to 10 years. No cases of reactivation of tuberculosis or disability.Conclusion. Resection surgery for combination of tuberculosis and congenital lung defects allowed to clarify the diagnosis and to achieve a direct effect in all patients by clarifying the drug resistance of mycobacterium tuberculosis and to optimize postoperative chemotherapy.

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THE OBJECTIVE of our study was to increase the efficiency of treatment of tuberculosis postoperative reactivations in a previously operated lung, by clarifying the medical indications, improving surgical techniques and tactics when removing a previously resected lung.METHODS AND MATERIALS. We analyzed the results of treatment of 220 patients who, in the 2004–2017 timeframe in our institution, had pneumonectomies (76 cases) and pleuropneumonectomies (144 cases) for tuberculosis relapse in a previously operated lung. For more objective planning of surgical treatment and evaluation of its results, we identified three degrees of treatment radicalism: radical, conditionally radical, and palliative.RESULTS. 32 patients, who had carried a radical surgery, were diagnosed as having a complete clinical effect at the time of discharge (absence of destruction cavities in a single lung, bacterial excretion and illiquid complications) in 100 % of cases; in the group of patients operated conditionally radical, there were diagnosed 161 out of 168 (95.8 %) and in the group of patients operated palliative, there were distinguished only 3 cases out of 20 (15.0 %).CONCLUSION. The implementation of the completion pneumonectomy and pleurapneumonectomy is accompanied by high technical complexity and more frequent development of intraoperative and postoperative complications. At the same time, the high efficiency of treatment of tuberculosis relapses in a previously operated lung can be achieved using the recommended tactics and techniques of surgical treatment when performing radical and conditionally radical interventions.