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Pleura

March 6, 2024
This video shows a safe and effective technique for surgically treating complex pulmonary echinococcus.
December 6, 2023
CTSNet Editor in Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. David Waller about the MARS-2 mesothelioma clinical trial. They discussed various discrepancies in the trial that make it difficult to apply to real-world mesothelioma treatment.
October 25, 2023
This video demonstrates an extended pleurectomy and decortication, which is a cytoreductive procedure for the surgical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma.
January 12, 2023
A recent study found that mesothelioma patients who undergo both lung-sparing extended pleurectomy and decortication can achieve extended survival compared to those who undergo just one type of surgery.
June 10, 2021
This examination of readmission rates is based on data from nearly 40,000 patients from the STS Database having undergone elective pulmonary lobectomy.   Readmission was driven by complications during the index operation, notably pulmonary embolism, empyema, pleural effusion, and pneumothorax.  Improved pleural space management may offer a means to m
April 8, 2020
The authors describe their experience with a patient in their unit who had an air leak following thoracic surgery who was later found to have COVID-19.
January 8, 2020
In this randomized trial including 330 pts with MPE, talc slurry and VATS talc insufflation under local anesthesia had similar failure rates (24% vs 22%) at 90 days.
December 19, 2019
The authors describe the case report of a young woman with catamenial pneumothorax who underwent surgical treatment by robotic assisted thoracoscopy.
December 6, 2019
In this multi-institutional randomized trial comparing talc slurry through a chest tube to talc pudrage during VATS, success rates at 90 days were similar.
September 9, 2019
In this video, the authors demonstrate a robotic decortication for a trapped lung and a bilateral lung transplantation.

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