Management of Patients with Prolonged Air Leak after Pulmonary Resection with Heimlich Valve
| العنوان: | Management of Patients with Prolonged Air Leak after Pulmonary Resection with Heimlich Valve |
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| المؤلفون: | Nazish Sikander, Tanveer Ahmad, Misauq Mazcuri, Rafia Zafar, Shifa Naz |
| المصدر: | Pakistan Journal of Health Sciences. :108-113 |
| بيانات النشر: | CrossLinks International Publishers, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| الوصف: | Prolonged air leak (PAL) after pulmonary resection is defined as air leak persisting for five or more days. Majority can be managed conservatively using one-way device Heimlich valve (HV) while few may require surgical intervention. Objective: To evaluate safe discharge policy for Prolonged air leak and role of Heimlich valve in its management. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in the Department of Thoracic surgery at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, Karachi, including patients with PAL following pulmonary resection between the years 2019-2021. Cerfolio Grade IV air leaks were excluded. Results: File records of 467 patients were reviewed; seventy (15%) had PAL. Most common indication for resection was bronchiectasis (n=24; 34.3%); Lobectomy was the most common procedure (31/70; 44.3%) associated with PAL. Grade II (n=38) air leak was most commonly encountered. All grade III patients developed complications (p=0.02), followed by grade II (p=0.07) whereas Grade I had least complications (8/19; p |
| تدمد: | 2790-9352 2790-9344 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::b37f77d6f1629509dcaae5c441e72aa1 https://doi.org/10.54393/pjhs.v3i06.276 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........b37f77d6f1629509dcaae5c441e72aa1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 27909352 27909344 |
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