OBJECTIVES We examined whether the changes in clinical practice with time correlated with the changes in the 90-day mortality following pneumonectomy. METHODS The clinical records of consecutive patients undergoing pneumonectomy in two French centres from 1980 to 2009 were prospectively collected. The 90-day postoperative course was retrospectively studied according to clinical characteristic...

OBJECTIVE Three decades ago, a few patients with pulmonary hypertension and respiratory failure associated with a unilateral destroyed lung were reported to have been treated by a pneumonectomy. In the present study, we investigated the clinical features, operative indications, and results of four cases with pulmonary hypertension that underwent a pneumonectomy for a unilateral destroyed lung. ...

A best evidence topic was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether pulmonary resection is safe and worthwhile in patients who have undergone previous pneumonectomy. A total of 141 studies were identified using the reported search, of which 8 represented the best evidence to answer the clinical question. Studies on multiple lung cancers with patients undergo...

Boatman, E. S. (1977). Thorax, 32, 406-417. A morphometric and morphological study of the lungs of rabbits after unilateral pneumonectomy. A study was made to determine the changes occurring in the contralateral lung of adult rabbits as a result of left pneumonectomy. Stereological procedures for light microscopy and for electron microscopy were used to quantitate the changes. Lungs from contro...

The literature concerning heart surgery after pneumonectomy is still poor. Moreover, there is still a lack of a standardized approach to such a patient in the decision-making process. Here, we report a case of a patient who had previously had left pneumonectomy for malignancy and who had coronary artery disease and mitral and tricuspid regurgitation treated with a hybrid procedure.

A patient with normal oxygenation before operation became very breathless and hypoxaemic after a right pneumonectomy. Transoesophageal echocardiography showed right to left interatrial shunting due to a patent foramen ovale. Transoesophageal echocardiography should be included in the assessment of patients who became inappropriately dyspnoeic after pneumonectomy.

Objective: To analyze the feasibility of simultaneous bilateral thoracoscopic lung resection in treatment multiple primary cancers early stage. Methods: The study time range is between March 2019 and 2021. A sample 30 patients with cancer admitted to this hospital were included, they divided into a group, control samples within group using random number table scheme n=15, underwent staged pneum...

Twenty eight patients with bronchial carcinoma were studied before pneumonectomy. Measurement of spirometric indices, static lung volumes, transfer factor (TLCO), and transfer coefficient (KCO) was undertaken before and four months after pneumonectomy. Fourteen of the patients also performed a symptom limited progressive exercise test on a cycle ergometer before and four months after pneumonect...

BACKGROUND Pneumonectomy is associated with higher early mortality and morbidity, and it is also known to predispose the patient to respiratory complications during mid- and long-term follow-up. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify risk factors associated with respiratory complications during the follow-up period after pneumonectomy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 98 pati...

Growth of solid tumor metastases is critically dependent on angiogenesis. We hypothesized that an "angiogenic-rich" milieu, as in pneumonectomy-induced lung growth, would be conducive to growth of pulmonary metastases, and that transfer of an antiangiogenic gene would suppress tumor growth. Two weeks after left pneumonectomy in BALB/c mice, right lung mass increased 1.5-fold compared with contr...