Five year after bilateral lung volume reduction surgery: a case report

Hatice Eryiğit,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2011.068

Hatice Eryiğit¹, Cemal Asım Kutlu²

¹Rize Devlet Hastanesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği, Rize
²Süreyyapaşa Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği, İstanbul

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2011.068

This paper presents the five-year follow-up of a 57-year-old male patient who underwent bilateral thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery with the diagnosis of emphysema. The patient had been hospitalized three times due to dyspnea during the six months before the operation and after the operation, he required hospitalization for the first time in the postoperative 4th year. Respiratory capacities of the patient increased until the end of the first year and than fell to the preoperative values in the fifth year. The patient died due to pneumonia in the postoperative 6^th year.

Keywords : Emphysema; lung volume reduction surgery; thoracoscopy

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