Medical News of North Caucasus

The effectiveness of various retrieval bags for extracting resected tissues during the removal of hydatid cysts (HCs) of the liver in children was evaluated. This open, prospective study included 59 children with HC of the liver treated during 2010–2019. Multiport laparoscopic echinococcectomy was undertaken. Patients were divided into three groups depending on the type of […]

Human echinococcosis refers to severe parasitic diseases that affect different strata of the population and different age groups. Registration of this helminthiasis started in the USSR in 1983. According to the WHO, in some endemic areas, incidence rates of hydatid cysts fluctuate between 5%–10% of the total population per year. Modern epidemiology of the disease […]

The chronic constipation in childhood, in spite of the modern development of coloproctology, remains serious and in many aspects an unresolved problem. Therefore the choice of volume of an optimum level of resection is of great importance in depression of quantity of relapses after the surgical treatment. The differentiated approach applied now to surgical treatment in constipation is based on radiological data (a choice of the […]

The study defined endoscopic criteria for congestive portal gastropathy in children with extrahepatic form of portal hypertension. The most significant endoscopic features were mosaic changes in the mucosa with foci of erythema and subepithelial hemorrhages, hyperemia with areas of the elevated edematous gastric mucosa by the type of mosaic. Minaev S. V., Romaneeva N. M., Getman N. […]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the incidence of persons with hydatid cyst in endemic areas is more than 50 per 100,000 population per year. In some parts of Argentina, Peru, East Africa, Central Asia, and China, it reaches 5%-10%. In parts of South America, 20%–95% of animals that are slaughtered are condemned to […]

In the period from 2003 till 2013 156 children with scoliosis of grade III-IV underwent surgery using spinal system «COLORADO-2». All children are divided into two groups depending on the rigidity or mobility of scoliotic deformity of the spine.

Connective tissue dysplasia (CTD) is a heterogeneous group of connective tissue diseases of a polygenic-multifactorial nature, united in phenotypes on the basis of a commonness of external and / or visceral signs. 

Diagnosis and treatment children with acute scrotal pain was ivestigated in different work. The acute painful scrotum is one of the most challenging urological emergencies. Making the correct diagnosis of testicular torsion, torsion of a testicular appendage, or acute epididymitis can be difficult because pathognomonic findings are infrequently present. Delayed diagnosis and treatment can potentially lead […]