ECHINOCOCCOSIS OF LUNGS: DIAGNOSTICS AND SURGICAL TREATMENT
Echinococcosis is a cyclical parasitic disease that affects vital organs - the liver and lungs. Despite the fact that the diagnosis, prevention and surgical treatment of liver echinococcosis have already been well studied and widely covered, pulmonary echinococcosis, as a less common disease, requires generalization of the experience of thoracic surgeons to select the most optimal methods of surgical treatment. The article presents the experience of diagnostics and surgical treatment of patients with pulmonary echinococcosis in the department of thoracic surgery of the Republican Clinical Hospital named after G.G. Kuvatov, Ufa for the period from2010 to 2019. The study revealed that the most sensitive research methods are radiography and computed tomography of the lungs. The greatest number of lesions occurred in the lower lobe localization. There was a tendency towards a decrease in the size of parasitic cysts in patients over a 10-year follow-up period. The main variants of surgical interventions used for pulmonary echinococcosis have been studied. The analysis of the operations showed a decrease in the growth of lobectomies and an increase in the number of organ-preserving operations. Relapses of the disease identified at various times (from 6 months to 5 years) after the primary surgery accounted for about 8% of cases.