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Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology 1/2022

01-01-2022 | Pericardiectomy | ASO Author Reflections

ASO Author Reflections: A Simple Method to Predict Risk Factors of Complications After Pneumonectomy

Authors: Zhixin Li, MD, Wenxin He, MD, Chong Wang, MD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 1/2022

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Patients who underwent pneumonectomy are confronted with a higher incidence of chest infection, bronchopleural fistula, respiratory failure, and arrhythmia, as well as perioperative death than lobectomy. A previous study showed that age >65 years, underweight body mass index, American Society of Anesthesiologists score ≥3, right laterality, extended pneumonectomy, and absence of systematic lymphadenectomy were risk factors of complications after pneumonectomy. Induction therapy and overweight body mass index category were protective factors.1 Some of the risk factors coincide with this study but the weight of each risk factor is not explained. …
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Title
ASO Author Reflections: A Simple Method to Predict Risk Factors of Complications After Pneumonectomy
Authors
Zhixin Li, MD
Wenxin He, MD
Chong Wang, MD
Publication date
01-01-2022
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-10629-3

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