Advances in operative technique and perioperative care have reduced surgical morbidity and mortality considerably after pulmonary resections. Various single and combined parameters of functional operability have been proposed to assess the surgical risk. Patients with normal or only slightly impaired pulmonary function (FEV1 and DLCO > or = 80% predicted) and no cardiovascular risk factors can ...

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135 Received June 1, 2012; accepted September 3, 2012. Published online September 14, 2012; doi: 10.1620/tjem.228.135. Correspondence: Sumiko Maeda, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 4-1 Seiryomachi, Aobaku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] *Present address: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 4-1 Seiry...

  Background Hepatoblastoma is a common liver malignancy in children and commonly presents with primary tumors. In hepatoblastoma, lung is the most common place to metastasis. Chemotherapy have led to many improvements in the local control of hepatoblastoma. A main goal of treatment for hepatoblastoma is to achieve complete tumor resection. Case Presentation The patient was a 2.5 years old boy ...

A 45-year-old Japanese woman complained of uncontrolled hypertension and face swelling. She was diagnosed with Cushing's syndrome with secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography revealed a 2 × 2 cm mass in her left lung, with high standardized maximum uptake value. She underwent bronchoscopy with endobronchial ultrasound via a g...

Background: Smoking relapse after surgical resection for lung cancer (LC) remains a health concern. This study aims to determine various factors associated with postoperative smoking in patients undergoing stage I non-small cell (NSCLC) at an urban safety net hospital.

The role of chest physiotherapy in limiting postoperative pulmonary complications and in the recovery of pulmonary function and exercise capacity after lung surgery is still unclear because of the lack of conclusive, well-designed clinical trials. In this article the available literature on these topics is reviewed, and the effects of respiratory physiotherapy, instituted preoperatively or admi...

Current trends in increased life-expectancy and lung cancer incidence have led to a growing number of elderly patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer. Advances in surgical techniques and perioperative care have led to improved outcomes in octogenarians undergo pulmonary resection. There have been few reports, however, of surgical management in patients over the age of ninety years. Here we repo...

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction can be difficult to diagnose after lung surgery. As recent diagnostic criteria emphasize serum cardiac markers (in particular serum troponin) we set out to evaluate its clinical utility and to establish the long term prognostic impact of detected abnormal postoperative troponin levels after lung resection. METHODS We studied a historic cohort of patients with ...

Prolonged air leak (PAL), defined as air leak more than 5 days after lung resection, has been associated with various adverse outcomes. However, studies on intraoperative risk factors for PAL are not sufficient. We investigated whether the intraoperative ventilatory leak (VL) can predict PAL. A retrospective study of 1060 patients with chest tubes after lung resection was conducted. Tidal volum...