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Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy
Pulmonary complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the post-operative period after thoracotomy. The type of complications and the severity of complications depend on the type of thoracic surgery that has been performed as well as on the patient's pre-operative medical statu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4613409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26556921 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.165852 |
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description | Pulmonary complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the post-operative period after thoracotomy. The type of complications and the severity of complications depend on the type of thoracic surgery that has been performed as well as on the patient's pre-operative medical status. Risk stratification can help in predicting the possibility of the post-operative complications. Certain airway complications are more prone to develop with thoracic surgery. Vocal cord injuries, bronchopleural fistulae, pulmonary emboli and post-thoracic surgery non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema are some of the unique complications that occur in this subset of patients. The major pulmonary complications such as atelectasis, bronchospasm and pneumonia can lead to respiratory failure. This review was compiled after a search for search terms within ‘post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracic surgery and thoracotomy’ on search engines including PubMed and standard text references on the subject from 2000 to 2015. |
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spelling | pubmed-46134092015-11-09 Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy Sengupta, Saikat Indian J Anaesth Review Article Pulmonary complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the post-operative period after thoracotomy. The type of complications and the severity of complications depend on the type of thoracic surgery that has been performed as well as on the patient's pre-operative medical status. Risk stratification can help in predicting the possibility of the post-operative complications. Certain airway complications are more prone to develop with thoracic surgery. Vocal cord injuries, bronchopleural fistulae, pulmonary emboli and post-thoracic surgery non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema are some of the unique complications that occur in this subset of patients. The major pulmonary complications such as atelectasis, bronchospasm and pneumonia can lead to respiratory failure. This review was compiled after a search for search terms within ‘post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracic surgery and thoracotomy’ on search engines including PubMed and standard text references on the subject from 2000 to 2015. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4613409/ /pubmed/26556921 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.165852 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Sengupta, Saikat Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy |
title | Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy |
title_full | Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy |
title_fullStr | Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy |
title_full_unstemmed | Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy |
title_short | Post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy |
title_sort | post-operative pulmonary complications after thoracotomy |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4613409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26556921 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.165852 |
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