K S Naunheim

..We sought to identify predictors of operative mortality, pulmonary morbidity, and cardiovascular morbidity after lung volume reduction surgery...

..Two additional years of follow-up provide valuable information regarding durability...

..The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is an association between anxiety and functional measures, quality of life and dyspnea...

..In addition, the authors predict follow-up strategies that will be routinely practiced within the next decade...

..In order to address these shortcomings we undertook an analysis of the TLVR experience at five separate institutions to assess operative morbidity and identify predictors of mortality...

..To compare accelerational forces to the head in high school-level football, hockey, and soccer athletes...

..It has been suggested that bilateral thoracoscopic lung volume reduction (BTLVR) yields significantly better long-term survival than unilateral thoracoscopic lung volume reduction (UTLVR)...

..This article discusses this procedure and the trials that have been instituted. LVR might prove to be a viable alternative treatment modality for selected, end-stage emphysema patients in the future...

..Ventricular assist devices (VADs) have gained wider acceptance due to refinements in patient selection and management and device availability...

..Lung reduction has been demonstrated to be a promising treatment for end-stage emphysema when performed on both lungs via sternotomy. The role for a thoracoscopic approach has not yet been determined...

..To analyze variation in beliefs that potentially motivate thoracic surgeons in the design of posttreatment surveillance strategies for lung cancer patients and to examine the relationship between motivation and follow-up intensity...

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..We sought to determine the long-term survival of patients treated for bronchial carcinoid tumors and whether lesser resections have had an effect on outcomes...

..The recognition and management of these rare cases are discussed...

..Using video thoracoscopy, the cyst was drained and the wall of the cyst was resected successfully with minimal concomitant morbidity...

..The problem is an especially interesting one because little is known about how outcomes vary when the follow-up strategy is altered...

..Patients are often frail, with poor underlying pulmonary function and minimal physiologic reserve. Attentive, meticulous postoperative care and monitoring are required to minimize the incidence and severity of complications...

..Severe complications that developed during the interval of VAD support, including cerebrovascular accident, bleeding and infection, were surprisingly not predictors for transplantation...

..The myotonic dystrophy is unchanged. Only six cases of this nature have been reported in the literature, and this patient is the first to be successfully treated with combined modality therapy...

..Though it is unlikely that current follow-up recommendations will ever be tested in randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses of existing retrospective data could improve the quality of the existing literature...

..We sought to identify risk factors for air leak and its duration and to estimate its medical consequences for selecting optimal perioperative technique(s), such as buttressing technique, to preempt or treat post-LVRS air leak...

..This case illustrates the clinical utility of reporting soft tissue abnormalities, which may provide an alternative, more readily accessible location for biopsy that is both safer and less expensive than bronchoscopy or mediastinoscopy...

..Botulinum toxin injections may blunt the beneficial effect of MIHM on quality of life. The outcome of MIHM is good regardless of the type of fundoplication or surgical approach...

..Finally, some patients with a solitary focus of metastatic disease in the brain or adrenal gland appear to benefit substantially from resection...