MODERN METHODS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF BULLOUS LUNGS EMPHYSEMA

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The surgical considerations of bullous emphysema.

Increasing surgical interest in bullous emphysema has been manifest in recent years. Justification for surgery in many series of cases has been vague but there is more and more agreement on the necessity for considering an increasing number of these patients for surgery. The first American reference on this subject was in 1925 when Koontz reviewed the literature and collected 105 cases. The sur...

Surgical treatment of emphysema.

Patients breathless from chronic lung disease present a serious problem in morbidity and mortality in Britain, the U.S.A., and other countries with a temperate climate (Fletcher and Tinker, 1961 ; Bower, 1961). For their successful treatment it is essential to determine how much obstruction there is to the air-flow from their lungs and to try to find the cause of this obstruction, whether it be...

Bullous Emphysema of the Lung

Treatment by VATS of giant bullous emphysema: results.

OBJECTIVE In selected patients with giant bullous emphysema GBE and in those with specific complications, surgery may be the treatment of choice. METHODS In the period January 1993-February 1996 we performed 34 VATS treatments in 29 patients affected by GBE. There were 22 (76%) males and 7 (24%) females, with a mean age of 54 years (range 24 74). In 23 cases, a pneumothorax (PNX) was present ...