Anaesthesia for pneumonectomy

Pneumonectomy for Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

1965;48;153-159 Dis Chest David V. Pecora Pneumonectomy for Pulmonary Tuberculosis http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/48/2/153 can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services ) ISSN:0096-0217 http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml ( without the prior written permission of the copyright holde...

Update on anesthetic management for pneumonectomy.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Pneumonectomy has the highest perioperative risk among common pulmonary resections. The purpose of this review is to update clinicians on the importance of anesthetic management for these patients. RECENT FINDINGS Two complications associated with increased perioperative mortality are relevant to anesthetic management: postoperative arrhythmias and acute lung injury. The ger...

Left pneumonectomy and middle lobectomy for bronchiectasis.

Lobectomy for metachronous lung cancer after pneumonectomy.

Second primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a well-known disease in patients having undergone successful NSCLC resection. Surgery for patients with cancer in the residual lung after pneumonectomy should not be excluded automatically. However, surgery on a single residual lung is usually done by wedge resection or segmentectomy, whereas lobectomy remains somewhat exceptional. We report ...

Right carinal pneumonectomy for a delayed diagnosis.

The authors present the case of a male patient misdiagnosed with right upper lobe tuberculosis and repeatedly treated for this in the last two years, without response. In our institution, the source of the hemoptysis proved to be a pulmonary carcinoma, which in its evolution involved the carina and the last tracheal ring. Right carenal pneumonectomy with two tracheal ring resection is performed...