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Article: Researchers outline preoperative evaluation before lung resection.
- Article from:
- Respiratory Therapeutics Week
- Article date:
- August 18, 2003
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2003 AUG 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers outline preoperative evaluation before lung resection.
According to a study from the United States, "Lung cancer continues to be the leading case of cancer deaths in the United States.
"In patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer, surgical resection is the treatment of choice. An accurate preoperative general and pulmonary-specific evaluation is essential, as postoperative complications and morbidity of lung resection surgery are significant," wrote D. Datta and colleagues, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Department Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine.
"After ...
<60% of predicted, further evaluation by means of a quantitative lung scan is required. If lung scan reveals a predicted postoperative (ppo) values for FEV1 and DLCO of><40%, exercise testing is necessary. If this reveals a maximal oxygen uptake (VO[subscript]2max) of>