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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:1037-1038
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Marvin Pomerantz, MD

General Thoracic Surgery Section, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center, 4200 E 9th Ave, #C310, Denver, CO 80262

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See also page 1033.

Doctor Massard and his colleagues have reported 25 patients undergoing pneumonectomy for chronic infection. Two of these patients died, 8 had postpneumonectomy empyema, and 3 patients had bronchial stump dehiscence. This high mortality and complication rate emphasizes the morbidity of chronic pulmonary infections requiring pneumonectomy. Nine of the 23 survivors eventually underwent thoracoplasty to obliterate the pleural space or to close the bronchopleural fistula.

Our experience includes 112 patients undergoing pneumonectomy for mycobacterial disease. Sixty-six had multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, 42 had mycobacterial infections other . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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