Patients presenting with a sudden drop in the pleural fluid level after a pneumonectomy in the absence of a recognizable bronchopleural fistula (BPF) have been classified as cases of benign emptying of the post-pneumonectomy space (BEPS). A retrospective study of 1378 pneumonectomies identified 4 cases of BEPS (0.29%). The patients were men; median age 64 years and all had undergone a right pne...

This paper presents a new tuning mechanism for millimetre-wave BPF based on deflection of the BCB membrane of BCB packaging cap. A 3-pole parallel-coupled microstrip filter operating at 60 GHz is first implemented on 30 μm-thick BCB polymer substrate and then BCB-capped through our new anti-adhesion layer assisted wafer-level transfer technique. Gold electrodes are fabricated on top of the BCB ...

High frequency ventilation, another alternative strategy for management of BPF, has been advocated in patients with BPF as a conduit for providing adequate gas exchange at lower mean ventilation pressures 9. Various HFV approaches including high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) and high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) have been proposed and utilized. HFJV employs high gas pressures pro...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of operative mortality and survival following pneumonectomy for nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: All 206 patients having a pneumonectomy for NSCLC between 1991 and 1997 in our unit were prospectively studied. There were 162 males (79%) and 44 females (21%) with a mean age (^ standard deviation) of 61 ^ 7.7 years (range 3...

Gastrointestinal mucositis induced during cancer treatment is considered a serious dose-limiting side effect of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. Frequently, interruption of the cancer treatment due to this pathology leads to a reduction in cure rates, increase of treatment costs and decrease life quality of the patient. Natural products such as Bidens pilosa L. (Asteraceae), represent a potent...

In Multiple Sclerosis (MS) the relationship between disease process in normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) and the development of white matter lesions is not well understood. In this study we used single voxel proton 'Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy' (qMRS) to characterize the NAWM and thalamus both in atypical 'Clinically Definite MS' (CDMS) patients, MRI(neg) (N = 15) with very ...

The comparison of the histologic healing and bronchopleural fistula (BPF) complications encountered with three different BS closure techniques (manual suture, stapler and manual suture plus tissue flab) after pneumonectomy in dogs was investigated for a one-month period. The dogs were separated into two groups: group I (GI) (n = 9) and group II (GII) (n = 9). Right and left pneumonectomies were...

We present a case that used argon plasma coagulation (APC) for the healing of bronchopleural fistulas (BPF), which most probably developed secondary to tracheobronchial anastomotic failure (TBAF). We aimed to show this procedure as an alternative treatment for the small fistulas that could develop after pneumonectomy. In a 56-year old male patient, right upper lobe squamous cell carcinoma was d...