Head of the Department of Endoscopic Surgery A.V. Myzin has asked our foundation for financial aid in purchase of instruments:

"Specialists of the Department of Endoscopic Surgery, Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, annually perform over 150 surgical operations for resection of neoplasms in gastrointestinal and respiratory pathways.
An original technique for radical intraluminal resection of tracheal and bronchial neoplasms (polyps, adenomata, carcinoids) has been developed. This method enables us to perform complete resection of the neoplasms without traumatic operations.
The traditional approach is as follows: the thoracic cavity is opened, then the lumen of the trachea or bronchus is also opened, part of the brochus or a lung lobe is often removed (about 40% cases). The recovery after such an operation takes a long time (about 1 month), and sometimes the intervention even leads to some kind of disability.
In the case of endoscopic removal of neoplasms, the preoperative preparations are minimal, and the child can be discharged from hospital on the 2nd or 3rd day after the operation. The most important thing about such an operation is that it is organ-sparing.
However, to perform endoscopic removal of tracheal and bronchial neoplasms, we need endoscopic snares SD-7P-1, SD-8P-1 and a balloon catheter B5-2C. The total cost of these instruments is about 60,000 roubles ($2000)."

February 25, 2010