The effect of supradiaphragmatic splanchnicectomy on the blood pressure of 294 hypertensive patients followed for 10 to 18 months after surgery is compared with the effects of nonspecific medical management in a control group of 79 patients similarly studied. The data are presented in simple graphic form. It is concluded that 29 per cent of the hypertensive patients had reductions in blood pres...

BACKGROUND With advances in minimally invasive surgery, thoracoscopic repair of oesophageal atresia has become popular in many centres worldwide and indeed has been described as the pinnacle of neonatal surgery. Here, we report our experience in two tertiary referral centres. METHODS Thoracoscopic technique was introduced in 2007. Thus, a retrospective review of all patients diagnosed with oe...

BACKGROUND To show the safety and stability of a spiral wire needle (Somatex; Rietzneuendorf, Germany) in the detection and subsequent thoracoscopic resection of subpleural and/or small nodules of the lung. METHODS Under local anesthesia and CT control, 13 patients underwent the positioning of a spiral wire needle into the lung, with the spiral located close to or inside the nodule to be rese...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was introduced nearly 2 decades ago and has experienced an exponential increase for lung cancer treatment. A pneumonectomy can be performed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and the lung usually fits through the incision as usually used for VATS lobectomy. The most common approach for pneumonectomy is undertaken with 3 or 4 incisions, including ...

Primary tracheal tumor is a disease with low morbidity and poor prognosis. Surgical resection the main treatment. It difficult to treat tumors, while involving reconstruction operations are more complicated. We report case of patient. The large was located above carina opening left bronchus. lumen bronchus significantly narrowed. patient received thoracoscopic-assisted under general anesthesia....

Uncontrollable bleeding caused by vascular injury is an important reason for conversion to thoracotomy during thoracoscopic lung surgery. Demmy et al. (1) summarized several effective methods for dealing with bleeding, such as the use of thrombostatic material, biological sealant, or discreet utilization of energy sources. However, managing more severe bleeding is quite challenging even for exp...

There have been a few reports of pulmonary resection for lung cancer in patients on hemodialysis (HD), but no reports of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in these patients have been submitted. We describe two patients on HD undergoing thoracoscopic resection for lung cancer. For the thoracoscopic operation, anatomies of the patients were confirmed by three-dimensional multidetector c...

Question of the Study In this study, safety and feasibility of thoracoscopic fenestration of pleuropericardial cysts under local and general anaesthesia is evaluated. Besides, a rare case of a pleural cyst, causing a superior vena cava syndrome, is described.Materials, Patients and Methods In a retrospective study, the results of thoracoscopic treatment of pleuropericardial cysts in three patie...

BACKGROUND Conventional radical surgeries for lung cancer incur a large amount of trauma, thoracoscopic surgeries can reduce trauma, and hopefully improve patients' postoperative quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of thoracoscopic radical surgeries on quality of life of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS Use Quality of Life-Core 30 Qu...