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Risk factors for prolonged air leak after pulmonary resection.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20619226     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Practical risk models stratifying the risk of prolonged air leak after pulmonary lobectomy have been developed and discussed. These scores may assist during preoperative patients' counseling, to identify patients at higher risk for prolonged air leak, who may benefit from the use of prophylactic measures such as the use of sealants, buttressed staple lines, or pleural tents. Furthermore, they may be used as standardized inclusion criteria for future randomized clinical trials testing the efficacy of these new technologies, and in doing so make the interpretation of results across different centers and studies more comparable. The clinical use of digital chest drainage units that permit quantitative measurement and recording of air leak flow and intrapleural pressure appears to add to the prediction and management of air leak after pulmonary resection. The use of risk scores based on these digital measures may set the stage for future investigations of active pleural management aimed at treating air leak by tailoring the level of intrapleural pressure to the needs of individual patients.
Authors:
Alessandro Brunelli; Stephen D Cassivi; Lisa Halgren
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Review    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Thoracic surgery clinics     Volume:  20     ISSN:  1547-4127     ISO Abbreviation:  Thorac Surg Clin     Publication Date:  2010 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-07-12     Completed Date:  2010-10-19     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101198195     Medline TA:  Thorac Surg Clin     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  359-64     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Umberto I Regional Hospital, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona 60020, Italy. brunellialex@gmail.com
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Chest Tubes
Humans
Logistic Models
Lymph Node Excision
Pleural Diseases / epidemiology*
Pneumonectomy / adverse effects*,  methods
Pneumothorax / epidemiology
Postoperative Complications / epidemiology
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Thoracoscopy

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