Insufficient control of post-thoracotomy pain can produce breathing dysfunction and long term staying in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). It can increase the incidence of pulmonary complications such as atelectasis, pneumonia and respiratory failure. The aim of this study was to determine the analgesic effect of continuous extrapleural nerve block, using ropivacaine, in neonates younger tha...

Objectives: Thoracotomy causes intense postoperative pain which may become chronic. Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)leads to less compared with thoracotomy. In this study, we analyzed scores in patients who underwent lungresections VATS or thoracotomy.Patients and Methods: Patients lung resections uniportal, biportal thoracotomy between May 2015– 2017 were included the study. Visual Analo...

This study evaluated the demographic and clinical properties, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and outcomes of patients with traumatic diaphragmatic injury. Among 853 patients who presented with blunt or penetrating thoracic injury between January 2010 and December 2016, 22 patients with traumatic diaphragmatic rupture were retrospectively studied. The analysed parameters included age, se...

Introduction: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is now commonly used for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. In the present study we compared the outcomes of this technique with those obtained by conventional thoracotomy.Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional stud, forty patients were enrolled into two groups: VATS (n=20) and thoracotomy (n=20). In both groups the blebs were resected ...

INTRODUCTION Anterior mini-thoracotomy approach is a good alternative to median sternotomy in Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) repair. Our purpose is to explain the details of our technique and peresent the results. METHODS Seventy five patients with ASD (52 female and 23 male) were operated with anterior mini-thoracotomy approach in our tertiary center between March 2012 and March 2014. The mean a...

BACKGROUND Of all the postsurgical pain conditions, thoracotomy pain poses a particular therapeutic challenge in terms of its prevalence, severity, and ensuing postoperative morbidity. Multiple pain generators contribute to the severity of post-thoracotomy pain, and therefore a multimodal analgesic therapy is considered to be a necessary strategy. Along with opioids, thoracic epidural analgesia...

We present the case of a 42-year-old male cirrhotic chronic alcoholic who was admitted during height COVID pandemic with large right pleural effusion. Thorough investigation revealed right-sided distal esophageal rupture near gastroesophageal junction and he diagnosed Mallory Weiss tear converted to Boerhaave’s syndrome. He successfully underwent endoscopic placement covered stent, but had prot...

Lichter, I. (1974). Thorax, 29, 32-37. Long-term follow-up of planned treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax. Ninety-six patients presenting with spontaneous pneumothorax have been followed for a period of five to 12 years after initial treatment. Treatment was designed to deal with the pneumothorax episode and management was planned to minimize the risk of recurrence. Patients were treated init...