Postoperative complications after pneumonectomy for treatment of lung cancer: Multivariate analysis

Pneumonectomy: Post-operative quality of life and lung function

“…Of these patients, 40-60% face postoperative complications, cardiovascular complications predominating. Other complications include ones such as respiratory infections, bronchopleural fistula, recurrent laryngeal palsy, delayed extubation, and pulmonary embolus [7][8][9].…”

Trends of bacterial colonisation and the risk of postoperative pneumonia in lung cancer patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

“…Several risk factors have been reported for POP, including FEV1, low body mass index (BMI), increased age, active smoking, carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (DLCO) less than 70% and bronchial obstruction [19][20][21]. Our results were similar to these previous reports.…”

Surgical lung cancer

“…The rate of postoperative complications after pulmonary resection is between 16-17% [15,32] and 60-80% [17,33], ranging in the majority of experiences between 24 and 48% [3,[5][6][7][8][9]. Operative mortality is between 1% [32,34] and 15% [17], with a major range between 5 and 8% [3,[6][7][8][9]33,35,36], increasing to 9 and 17% in pneumonectomy [3,5,8,37]. These figures make the study of risk predicting factors mandatory.…”