The Thoratic Surgery Department of the «Saint Gregory the Illuminator» Medical Center is located on the 6th floor of the Surgical building (A6).
Skilled and professional doctors, nurses and junior medical staff work in the Thoracic Surgery Department.
The following diseases are diagnosed and treated in the Thoracic Surgery Department:
Diseases of the trachea:
- Tracheal stenoses of various origins
- Tracheal fistulas
- Tracheo-esophageal fistulas
- Foreign bodies of trachea and bronchi
- Tumors of the trachea
- Tracheal injuries
- Tracheomalacia
Purulent destructive diseases of the lungs:
- Acute and chronic abscesses
- Lung rot
- Staphylococcal destruction of the lungs
- Bronchoectatic disease
- Lung cysts
- Pleural empyema (acute and chronic)
- Fibrothorax
- Bronchial tubes (bronchopulmonary, bronchopleural, bronchoorgan)
Open and closed injuries of the chest:
- Traumatic pneumohemothorax
- Clotted hemothorax
- Rib fractures (displaced, windowed, linear)
- Fractures of the sternum
- Penetrating and non-penetrating injuries
- Injuries of lungs, heart, chest cavity and other organs
- Traumatic ligament tears with dislocation of abdominal organs
- Esophagus injuries
Tumor diseases:
- Lung cancer
- Benign tumors (papilloma, adenoma, lipoma, cylindroma, neurinoma, neurofibroma, teratoma, hamartoma, fibroma, leiomyoma, lymphangioma, etc.)
- Benign tumors of the chest wall (chondroma, fibroma, osteoma, schwannoma, etc.)
- Malignant tumors of the chest wall
- Benign and malignant tumors of the septum (thymoma, poststernal cyst, teratoma, lipoma, hemodectoma, neurofibroma, neurinoma, lymphoma, etc.)
- Benign and malignant growths of the pleura (mesothelioma, mesenchymoma, fibroma, chondroma, angioma, etc.)
- Metastatic lesions of lungs, pleura, septum
Other diseases։
- Pulmonary echinococcosis
- Bullous lung disease
- Spontaneous pneumothorax (primary, secondary, recurrent)
- Pleurisy
- Mediastinitis
- Lymphadenopathy
- Articular hernias
- Aspergillosis
- Arteriovenous malformation of the lung
- Congenital and acquired deformities of the chest wall
- Congenital lung defects
- Blood clotting
The following surgeries are performed in the Thoracic Surgery Department:
- Treatment of the trachea in connection with tracheal stenoses
- Wedge and circular tracheal dissection
- Placing a tracheostomy tube
- Surgical treatment of tracheo-esophageal trachea
- Removal of trachea and bronchial foreign bodies under local and general anesthesia
- Bronchoscopy
- Pleural cavity puncture
- Pleural cavity drainage (in pneumothorax, hydrothorax and other pleural lesions)
- Atypical lung resection by thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods (in connection with lung bullous and bronchiectatic diseases)
- Pulmonary Echinococcosis (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
- Thoracotomy and thoracoscopic operations for purulent destructive diseases of the lungs and pleura
- In connection with benign and malignant neoplasms of the lungs and bronchi (segmentectomy, lobectomy, pneumonectomy) by thoracotomy and thoracoscopicmethods
- Bronchoplastic operations
- Pleural, lung and septum biopsies (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic)
- Parasternal biopsy
- Removal of septal tumors (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
- Surgical treatment of true and false intrathoracic hernia
- Surgical treatment of Zenkerian diverticulitis
- Surgical treatment of purulent mediastinitis
- Operations performed in connection with traumatic hemopneumothoraxes (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
- Fixation of sternum and ribs with metal construction (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
- Surgical treatment of post-traumatic hernias (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
- Surgical treatment of the relaxation of the dome of the stomach with the use of alloplastic mesh (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic methods)
- Partial and extensive resection of the pericardium (thoracotomy, thoracoscopic and sternotomy methods)
- Pericardial fenestration (thoracotomy and thoracoscopic)
- Removal of chest wall tumors
- Dissection of the chest wall
- Myoplastic surgeries of the chest wall
- Thoracostomy formation and closure
- Surgical treatment of limited and extensive infiltrative purulent diseases of the soft tissues of the chest wall
- Biopsy of cervical, iliac, superior and inferior lymph nodes
- Needle biopsy of the lung under MR control
- Sectoral resection of the breast and mastectomy