[Pneumothorax in cigarette smokers]

From 1.01.1992 to 31.12.1998 ill prisoners were treated because of so called spontaneous pneumothorax. Their age was between 24 to 57, which was 33 in average. All of them were males and heavy smokers. In one case of the coat pneumothorax the treatment was limited only to the breathing exercises, to ten other patients an under-water-seal drainage was applied, in the next case with pneumothorax and clear symptoms of bronchial fistula, the lung expansion was obtained no sooner than after the usage of a suction drainage. The risk of recurrence of the illness was limited by injection of 40% glucose solution through the drain to the pleural cavity to increase adhesions.