title: [Stages in the transition of acute pleurisy into chronic].
abstract: Literary data concerning chronic pleuritis incidence, pathomorphological and pathophysiological aspects of the disease chronization, leading to the chronic pulmonary heart development, are adduced. Pleurectomy is the prophylactic method of this complication beginning, i.e. is the invalidization prophylaxis method. Clinico-roentgenological classification is proposed, which permits to determine the conservative treatment duration and indications for the operation conduction.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Duzhiĭ
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010998:Pleurisy / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*