Awake uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for complications after pneumonectomy

Future Oncol. 2016 Dec;12(23s):51-54. doi: 10.2217/fon-2016-0362. Epub 2016 Oct 17.

Abstract

Since 1998, we started a clinical program for awake video-assisted thoracic surgery in our unit using four-step local anesthesia and sedation. Throughout the years, we experienced several difficult cases, three of them had complications postpneumonectomy. The aim of this paper is to report these three cases.

Keywords: VATS; awake; complications; pneumonectomy; uniportal.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Anesthesia / methods*
  • Comorbidity
  • Empyema / diagnosis
  • Empyema / etiology
  • Empyema / surgery
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Lung Neoplasms / mortality
  • Lung Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Male
  • Pneumonectomy / adverse effects*
  • Pneumonectomy / methods*
  • Pneumothorax / diagnosis
  • Pneumothorax / etiology
  • Pneumothorax / surgery
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery*
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / methods*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome