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Efficiency and safety of surgical intervention to patients with Non-Cystic Fibrosis bronchiectasis: a meta-analysis.
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- Management of Adult Bronchiectasis: Consensus-Based Guidelines of the German Respiratory Society.Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases · 2026Guideline
- An interpretable prognostic model for early unfavorable outcomes after bronchiectasis surgery.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Indications, Trends and Outcomes in Pediatric Lung Resections: A 12-Year Study in a Tertiary Referral Center.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Surgery for Bronchiectasis: Experience and Outcomes at Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2025Article
- Analysis of bronchiectasis patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a tertiary thoracic surgery center: Ten years of experience.Turk gogus kalp damar cerrahisi dergisi · 2024Article
- Preoperative controlling nutritional status score (CONUT) predicts postoperative complications of patients with bronchiectasis after lung resections.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Double lung transplantation in patients with lung atelectasis and complete mediastinal shift.Clinical case reports · 2022Article
- Surgical treatment of non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis in Central Europe.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Managing Bronchiectasis: 13 Years of Experience from Sputum to Lung Transplantation.Turkish thoracic journal · 2020Article
- Brazilian consensus on non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2019Article
- Surgical management of non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Review
- Raising awareness of bronchiectasis in primary care: overview of diagnosis and management strategies in adults.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2017Review
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Abstract
No quantitative systematic review was found to report the efficiency and safety of surgical resection in the management of non-cystic fibrosis (non-CF) bronchiectasis. We therefore conducted a meta-analysis to assess the effects of operative intervention to patients with non-CF bronchiectasis. PubMed, the Cochrane library and Web of Science databases were searched up to July 8th, 2015. The pooled mortality from 34 studies recruiting 4788 patients was 1.5% (95% CI, 0.9-2.5%). The pooled morbidity from 33 studies consisting of 4583 patients was 16.7% (95% CI, 14.8-18.6%). The pooled proportion of patients from 35 studies, consisting of 4614 patients who were free of symptoms was 66.5% (95% CI, 61.3-71.7%) after surgery. The summary proportion of patients from 35 articles including 4279 participants who were improved was 27.5% (95% CI, 22.5-32.5%), and 9.1% (95% CI, 7.3-11.5%) showed no clinical improvement. In conclusion, our analysis indicated that lung resection in the management of non-CF bronchiectasis is associated with significant improvements in symptoms, low risk of mortality and acceptable morbidity.
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