The effect of additional pleural procedures onto recurrence rates on the spontaneous pneumothorax surgery
Joint Authors
Zeybek, Arife
Kalemci, Serdar
Alma, Ozlem Gurunlu
Suzen, Alev
Akgul, Murat
Koc, Kadir
Source
Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal
Issue
Vol. 15, Issue 2 (28 Feb. 2013), pp.136-141, 6 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2013-02-28
Country of Publication
United Arab Emirates
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background : Spontaneous pneumothoraxes constituted 1 / 1000 hospital admissions.
They are particularly one of life threatening health issues in combination with bilateral pneumothorax, tension pneumothorax, repertory failure or COPD.
Objectives : The cases of spontaneous pneumothorax represent a significant portion of the patients profile within the chest surgery clinics.
The risk of recurrent pneumothorax in post thoracoscopy is between 2 % and 14 %, thus the subject of cure treatment and approach is still controversial.
The cases were retrospectively treated due to spontaneous pneumothorax and their reasons, treatment approaches and results were comparatively examined with the literature.
Patients and Methods : The years between 2007 and 2010, according to our hospital clinic, outpatients and accident & amp ; emergency admission records, 79 patients were admitted with a diagnosis of spontaneous pneumothorax ; and the patients’ age, gender, symptoms, types of pneumothorax, surgical intervention and recurrence, average length of stay, mortality and complications were retrospectively evaluated.
Results : Seventy of all the patients (88.6 %) were male and 9 of those (13.7 %) were female.
The mean age was calculated as 45.50 ± 21.07 (0-85).
The patients were comprised of 41 (51.9 %) with primary spontaneous pneumothorax and 38 (48.1 %) with secondary spontaneous pneumothorax.
55 of the patients (69.6 %) with the first attack, and 24 patients (30.4 %) with post tube thoracotomy’s 2nd or 3rd pneumothorax attack were admitted.
Those who were accepted with post tube thoracostomy’s 2nd or 3rd attack made up 2 / 3 of the secondary spontaneous pneumothorax patients.
57 of the patients (68.4 %) were treated with the tube thoracostomy.
The tube thoracostomy related complication was 6.3 %, hemorrhage due to parenchymal damage and massive air leak were observed.
An open surgical method to 22 of those patients and apical resection and apical pleurectomy + tetracycline pleurodesis to 16 of whom and bullae ligation and mechanical abrasion to 6 patients were applied.
The recurrence of pneumothorax in post-surgery was not observed for 1-3 year period Complication was not detected .Mortality, one patient (1.3 %) died in post tube thoracotomy, which was a stage 4 lung cancer patient.
Conclusions : Most cases for pneumothorax were consisted of the patients with the primary spontaneous pneumothorax ; the patients with recurrent pneumothorax were comprised of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax patients and those of majority secondary spontaneous pneumothorax patients were observed with bullous emphysema profile.
By looking at the pertinent literature, there are publications showing VATS with the recurrence rate ranging from 2 % to 14 % and post thoracotomy recurrence rate from 0% to 7 %.
We think that applying pleurectomy, mechanical abrasion and chemical pleurodesis additional to bullae ligation or apical resection in pneumothorax surgery will significantly reduce the recurrence rate.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zeybek, Arife& Kalemci, Serdar& Alma, Ozlem Gurunlu& Suzen, Alev& Akgul, Murat& Koc, Kadir. 2013. The effect of additional pleural procedures onto recurrence rates on the spontaneous pneumothorax surgery. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal،Vol. 15, no. 2, pp.136-141.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-329118
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zeybek, Arife…[et al.]. The effect of additional pleural procedures onto recurrence rates on the spontaneous pneumothorax surgery. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal Vol. 15, no. 2 (2013), pp.136-141.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-329118
American Medical Association (AMA)
Zeybek, Arife& Kalemci, Serdar& Alma, Ozlem Gurunlu& Suzen, Alev& Akgul, Murat& Koc, Kadir. The effect of additional pleural procedures onto recurrence rates on the spontaneous pneumothorax surgery. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. 2013. Vol. 15, no. 2, pp.136-141.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-329118
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 140-141
Record ID
BIM-329118