Abstract: Objective To summarize the method and effective result of thoracoscopic intrapleural perfusion hyperthermochemotherapy(TIPHC) for treating malignant pleural effusion caused by lung cancer. Methods Fiftyeight patients with malignant pleural effusion caused by lung cancer were randomly divided into therapeutic group(30 cases) and control group(28 cases) between February 1999 and March 2005. Pleural biopsy and TIPHC under general ansthesia with unilateral ventilation were performed in the therapeutic group, and intrapleural injection of cisplatin was administered in control group after drainage of pleural effusion. The effect on malignant pleural effusion, the change for the concentration of carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA), cytokeratin-19 fragments (CYFRA21-1), neuronspecific enolase (NSE) and the side effect were compared before and after the treatment. Results The therapeutic group achieved total response rate of 100.0%, but only 53.6% in control group, with significant difference(χ 2=3.863, Plt;0.05). Furthermore, the concentration of CEA, CYFRA21-1, NSE in therapeutic group dramatically descended than control group(t=2.562,Plt;0.05). But there was no significant difference in side effect (Pgt;0.05). The pathological diagnosis of all the patients were determined in the therapeutic group. Conclusion TIPHC has the advantage of both diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural effusions. It is safe and effective, and also able to determine the diagnosis. Furthermore, it offers the superiority of small wound, best visualization and convenient pleural biopsy.
Abstract:?Objective?To evaluate clinical outcomes of single utility port complete video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for patients with early-stage lung cancer.?Methods?We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 162 consecutive patients with early-stage lung cancer who underwent single utility port complete VATS lobectomy from September 2009 to October 2011 in Chinese PLA General Hospital (single utility port group),and compared them with 221 patients with early-stage lung cancer who underwent video-assisted mini-thoracotomy (VAMT) lobectomy in the same period (VAMT group). The clinical outcomes including operation time, intraoperative blood loss, lymph node dissection number, time to first activity out of bed, chest drainage duration and postoperative complications, were compared between the two groups.?Results?No perioperative death was observed in both groups. There were statistical differences in the intraoperative blood loss (162.8±75.6 ml vs. 231.4±62.8 ml), time to first activity out of bed (2.2±0.3 d vs. 3.7±0.5 d) , and chest drainage duration (3.5±0.2 d vs. 4.6±0.4 d) between the two groups (P<0.05). There was no statistical difference in operation time (133.7±22.0 min vs. 124.9±25.7 min) , lymph node dissection number (11.7±1.9 vs. 12.5±2.7), and incidence of serious postoperative complications (7.4% vs. 8.1%)between the two groups.?Conclusion?Single utility port complete VATS lobectomy and lymph node dissection are safe and reliable for patients with early-stage lung cancer with less injury and better postoperative recovery compared with VAMT.
Objective To compare the surgical trauma between videoassisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS) and conventional thoracotomy, and to investigate the possible minimally invasive mechanism. Methods Seventyseven patients who had undergone consecutive operations from April 2005 to January 2006 were chosen from cardiothoracic surgery department of Fujian Provincial Hospital. Twentytwo cases had spontaneous pneumothorax diagnosed by chest X-ray examination, twentynine had patent ductus arteriosus diagnosed by color echocardiography, and twentysix had congenital atrial septal defect. According to lesions and operative methods, the patients were divided into two groups: conventional thoracotomy group(CTH group) and videoassisted thoracoscopic surgery group(VATS group). The concentrations of serum C-reactive protein(CRP),interleukin6 (IL-6),interleukin-8(IL-8) and tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α) were selected as indexes to measure surgical trauma. ARRAY360 specific protein and pharmaceutical analysis system were used to determine CRP automaticly at the day before operation and on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd day after operation. Radioimmunoassay was used to measure the concentrations of IL-6,IL-8 and TNF-α. Clinical indexes such as operative time, cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) time, intraoperative blood lost, postoperative analgesic time and hospitalization time were analyzed and compared. Results Under the condition that patients had the same diseases, there was no statistical significance in preoperative concentrations of serum CRP,IL-6,IL-8 and TNFα between VATS group and CTH group(P=0.067, 0.062, 0.053,0.064). The concentrations of serum CRP(P=0.045,0.043,0.044), IL-6(P=0.042,0.032,0.039), IL-8(P=0.046,0.045,0.048) and TNF-α(P=0.041,0.043,0.043) on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd day after operation were significantly lower in VATS group than that in CTH group (Plt;0.05). Compared with CTH group, there were less blood lost(P=0.032), shorter postoperative analgesic time and hospitalization time(P=0.041) in VATS group. There was no statistical significance in CPB time between two groups. However, hospitalization time varied with different diseases. Conclusion Compared with conventional thoracotomy,videoassisted thoracoscopic surgery has less surgical trauma, less intraoperative blood lost, shorter postoperative analgesic time, and can make patients recover rapidly. So it is worth spreading.
Abstract: Objective To summarize the clinical experiences of videoassisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy performed on a series of 300 consecutive patients, and report the results of a 3year followup. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 300 consecutive patients who underwent VATS lobectomy from September 2006 to December 2009 in the Department of Thoracic Surgery, People’s Hospital of Peking University. Of the 300 patients, there were 159 males and 141 females with the age ranged from 18 to 86 years (58.30±13.90 years). Preoperative diagnosis showed that there were 266 patients of mass in the lung, 22 of bronchiectasis, 5 of cyst/abscess in the lung, 3 of pulmonary sequestration, 2 of fungus infection, and 2 of pneumothorax. We assessed the perioperative variables by standard descriptive statistics and estimated the 3year survival rate by KaplanMeier analyses. Results Sixtysix patients were diagnosed to have benign diseases and 234 patients were with malignancies. A percentage of 81.82% (54/66) of the benign patients had infectious diseases, and the majority of the malignancies was nonsmall cell lung cancer (213 patients), especially adenocarcinomas which comprised 73.08% (171/234) of all the malignancies. A total of 273 patients accomplished VATS lobectomy, of whom 27 patients required conversion to thoracotomy at a conversion rate of 9.00%(27/300). In the VATS lobectomy accomplished group, the mean operation time was 317±088 h, and the blood loss was 225.70±195.20 ml. Benign surgery took significantly less time (t=2.280, P=0.0032) and had shorter drainage time(t=1.392, P=0.0304) than those of malignancies. Dense adhesions between lymph nodes and blood vessels was the primary reason for conversion to thoracotomy in 17 patients at a percentage of 62.96%(17/27). Bleeding was the second reason for conversion in 5 patients at a percentage of 1852%. The patients in the upper lobe lobectomy group showed significantly higher risk of conversion compared with those in the nonupper lobe surgery group (χ2=6.131, P=0.013), while gender (χ2=1.182, P=0.277), pathology (χ2=0.210, P=0.647) and the tumor located in left or right side(χ2=2.933, P=0.087) didn’t influence the risk of conversion. The result of the 3year followup showed that there was no reoccurrence of symptoms in patients with benign diseases; Nonsmall cell lung cancer patients had a 3year survival rate of 0.87 with the 95% confidence interval (CI) from 0.77 to 0.96, and pathologic stage I patients at 0.91 with the 95%CI from 0.85 to 0.98. Conclusion VATS lobectomy is safe and effective. This research shows that domestic technologies of VATS lobectomy and its midterm results have reached the international standard.