BACKGROUND Thoracic surgeries including thoracotomy and VATS are some of the highest risk procedures that often lead to CPSP, with or without a neuropathic component. This retrospective study aims to determine retrospectively the prevalence of CPSP following thoracic surgery, its predicting risk factors, the incidence of neuropathic component, and its impact on quality of life. METHODS Patien...

1Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 2Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hos...

Accessible online at: www.onkder.org 1Department of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Turkey 2Department of Chest Surgery, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Turkey 3Department of Chest Diseases, Bağcılar Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Turkey 4Department of Medical Pa...

Thoracic surgery has existed as a specific surgical discipline for more than a century. Initially, its main focus was surgery for tuberculosis and bronchiectasis. However, since 1940, rapid progress has been made in surgery for lung cancer, of the oesophagus and, most spectacularly, of the heart. After 1960, cardiac surgery became a separate subspecialty with an emphasis on coronary bypass surg...

The role of multimodality management in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) continues to evolve and is a subject of ongoing clinical research. Induction chemotherapy followed by surgical resection with or without thoracic radiotherapy has proved superior to surgical resection alone in patients with ipsilateral mediastinal (N2) disease. Whether surgery alone still plays a role in...

Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery. Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery. Niterói-RJ. Brazil. Full Professor of Thoracic Surgery. Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery. Niterói-RJ. Brazil. Full Professor of Internal Medicine. Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Department of Internal Med...

Background and Objective: In thoracic surgery, different modalities of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) can be used for cardiorespiratory in complex scenarios. Decades learning clinical practice physiology associated with technological development led to a great variety ECLS technologies available. Thoracic surgery procedures difficult or impossible single lung ventilation may still performed...

THORACIC SURGERY CLINICS www.thoracic.theclinics.com Consulting Editor VIRGINIA R. LITLE May 2022 • Volume 32 Number 2

THORACIC SURGERY CLINICS www.thoracic.theclinics.com Consulting Editor VIRGINIA R. LITLE August 2023 • Volume 33 Number 3

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Database has three major component databases: the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (ACSD), the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database (CHSD), and the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD). Beginning in January 2016, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery began publishing a monthly series of scholarly articles on outcomes analysis, quality improvem...