Preoperative assessment for pulmonary resection.

Preoperative Emboli in a Pregnant Woman with Myxoma

The left atrium is the most common location of myxomas, which are benign tumors. Only a few cases of myxomas in pregnancies have been reported. Our thorough medical literature search showed only 17 reported cases in the course of pregnancy. Myxomas during pregnancy and in the preterm period constitute a serious phenomenon that can mimic an early sign of a life-threatening pathology like severe ...

Preoperative Assessment for Pulmonary Resection , 2005

Preoperative risk assessment for marginal patients requiring pulmonary resection.

Surgical resection remains the mainstay of treatment for pulmonary malignancy. The ability of patients to undergo resection is dependent on the anatomic characteristics of the tumor, and the respiratory and cardiovascular status of the patient. There have been recent advances in our understanding of respiratory function in the patient with marginal lung function that have allowed surgical thera...

Preoperative high-intensity training in frail old patients undergoing pulmonary resection for NSCLC

Thoracic surgery remains the better therapeutic option for non-small cell lung cancer patients that are diagnosed in early stage disease. Preoperative lung function assessment includes respiratory function tests (RFT) and cardio-pulmonary exercise testing (CPET). Vo2 peak, FEV1 and DLCO as well as recognition of performance status, presence of co-morbidities, frailty indexes, and age predict th...

Assessment of operative risk in patients undergoing lung resection. Importance of predicted pulmonary function.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of preoperative variables to identify patients at increased risk for complications after lung resection and the usefulness of predicted postoperative FEV1 as a marker of risk for adverse outcomes. DESIGN Prospective analysis of a cohort of patients undergoing pulmonary resection. Complication rates were analyzed according to preoperative pulmonary variables, ...

Preoperative assessment of patients for lung cancer surgery.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this work was to present and analyze the latest published documents about the functional evaluation of patients undergoing lung resection and review articles from the past two years addressing the same topic. RECENT FINDINGS In 2009 and 2010, two important task forces, appointed by international scientific societies, have published documents to guide the preoperat...