Pleura - Inflammation/Infection
Managing chronic, multidrug-resistant post-lobectomy empyema with a trapped lung and an active air leak represents a formidable surgical challenge. For patients who are unfit for formal open decortication or extensive thoracomyoplasty, innovative, minimally invasive salvage...
The value for the surgical team is to be found in the systematic approach and especially the candid discussion on benefits of pulmonary transplantation, with the frank statement that may...
Semenkovich and colleagues examined the current treatment practices for empyema in New York state using information from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project New York State Inpatient Database. The largest...
The authors summarizes a personal experience with 529 patients undergoing VATS operations under local anesthesia and sedation. No nerve block, epidural, laryngeal mask airway, or endotracheal intubation was used. Indications...