DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT OF HIRSCHSPRUNG’S DISEASE IN CHILDREN FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (PREPARAING THE PROJECT OF THE FEDERAL CLINICAL RECOMMENDATIONS)

The article contains the data related to the creation of the Project of Federal Clinical Recommendations on how to treat children with Hirschsprung’s disease applicable in the Russian Federation. The Project has been prepared for three years and consisted of several stages such as questioning of pediatric surgeons and the leading pediatric coloproctologists from Russia and neighboring countries (analyzing two questionnaires of 2015 and 2016), analysis of domestic and foreign literature depending on the topic, reporting the first results of the study during the XVII European Congress of pediatric surgeons, scientific discussion of specialists with a wide experience in treatment of patient with Hirschsprung’s disease in a profile academic periodical within two years.

During the study it was found out that they used different methods in diagnostics, treatment and postoperative rehabilitation of Hirschsprung’s disease and some issues are discordant.

The Project of Federal Clinical Recommendations made on the basis of the conducted work will be discussed at the All-Russia Symposium of Pediatric Surgeons with international participation ‘Hirschsprung’s disease and neurointestinal dysplasia in children’ in April 2018 and publicly available on the website of the Russian Association of Pediatric Surgeons.