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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2023; 71(01): 67-72
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1754318
Original Thoracic

Surgical Treatment of Cavernous and Fibrous-Cavernous TB in Children

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  • Dmitry Borisovich Giller

    1   Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moskva, Russia

  • Vadim Valerievich Koroev

    1   Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moskva, Russia

  • Oleg Shamilievich Kesaev

    1   Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moskva, Russia

  • Inga Igorevna Enilenis

    1   Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moskva, Russia

  • Roman Romanovich Dobrin

    1   Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moskva, Russia

  • Ivan Ivanovich Martel 

    1   Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery named after M.I. Perelman, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moskva, Russia

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Abstract

Introduction Treatment of cavernous and fibrous cavernous tuberculosis in children, especially in the presence of multiple drug resistance-tuberculosis or extremely drug resistance-tuberculosis, presents a major challenge.

Materials and Methods We analyzed results of treatment of 65 patients (mean age 14.8 + 2.9 years) with cavernous TB (group I) and 116 patients (mean age 15.6 + 1.9 years) with fibrous-cavernous TB (group II). Evaluation of treatment efficiency was performed directly at discharge and 1 year after treatment according to Lazerson's criteria.

Results In group I, after 80 operations, two (2.5%) cases showed delayed expansion of the lung after combined resections, in group II, postoperative complications after 160 operations occurred in eight (5.0%) cases (the difference is reliable p ≤0,05). There was no hospital fatality. The effectiveness at the time of discharge from surgery (cessation of bacterization and elimination of decay cavities in the lung) was 100% in groups I and II, respectively. A year later, according to Lazerson's criteria, the efficiency in group I was 100%, in group II was 97.4%.

Conclusion Operations in patients with cavernous tuberculosis performed after 10 to 12 months of conservative treatment present a lower risk of postoperative complications and relapses of cavernous tuberculosis than operations in patients with fibrous cavernous tuberculosis performed after 22 months or more of treatment.

Keywords

surgery - complications - tuberculosis - outcomes - VATS - computed tomography


Publication History

Received: 04 April 2022

Accepted: 01 June 2022

Article published online:
22 August 2022

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