Clinical and x-ray diagnostic characteristics of the enlarged mediastinum syndrome in urgent states in children

The syndrome of enlarged mediastinum is a symptom complex characterized by certain signs of diseases and conditions accompanied by an increase of the mediastinum organs. The most significant nosological units in children are carditis, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart defects, thymomegalia. Rapid determination of the nature of the disease, radiologically characterized by enlarged mediastinum, is important in urgent conditions. Timely determination of such indices as cardiothoracic, cardiothymicotorakal and vaso-cardial according to a survey X-ray diffraction can be considered an accessible method of differential diagno-sis in infants with acute conditions