ISSN : 1301-5680
e-ISSN : 2149-8156
Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery     
Factors affecting complication rates of pneumonectomy in destroyed lung
Aysun Kosif Mısırlıoğlu1, Serkan Bayram1, Hakan Kıral1, Meltem Çoban Ağca2, Fatma Tokgöz Akyıl2, Levent Alpay1, Volkan Baysungur1, İrfan Yalçınkaya1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Süreyyapaşa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
2Department of Chest Diseases, Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2018.14635
Background: This study aims to investigate the relationship between characteristics of patients who were performed pneumonectomy for destroyed lung and their surgical procedures with postoperative complications.

Methods: Thirty-nine patients (19 males, 20 females; mean age 35 years; range, 6 to 71 years) who were performed pneumonectomy with a diagnosis of destroyed lung between February 2007 and October 2014 were retrospectively evaluated. Patients were divided into two as those who did not develop any postoperative complication (group 1) and those who developed a postoperative complication (group 2). Patients’ characteristics and details of the surgical procedures were compared between the two groups.

Results: Twenty-nine patients (74%) were performed left pneumonectomy. Mean duration of hospital stay was nine days. During the postoperative three-month follow-up period, morbidity and mortality were reported for 13 patients (33.3%) and one patient (2.6%), respectively. No significant difference was found between groups 1 and 2 in terms of age, gender, concomitant diseases, spirometric findings, blood transfusion status, surgical resection width or methods of bronchial stump closure.

Conclusion: Low albumin levels increased the risk of developing postoperative complications in patients who were performed surgical resection for destroyed lung. Postpneumonectomy morbidity and mortality rates were at acceptable levels. Pneumonectomy should not be avoided as surgical treatment in eligible patients with destroyed lung.

Keywords : Complication; destroyed lung; pneumonectomy
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