ArticleOrphanet journal of rare diseases2018
A total pleural covering of absorbable cellulose mesh prevents pneumothorax recurrence in patients with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome.
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- Looking beyond the pneumothorax: lessons from a bilateral presentation of Marfan syndrome.AME case reports · 2026Article
- Polyglactin mesh in preventing recurrent pneumothorax in primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a retrospective efficacy study.Annals of translational medicine · 2025Article
- A novel edge-marking method in pleural covering with video-assisted thoracic surgery.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2023Article
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- The effects of total pleural covering on pneumothorax recurrence and pulmonary function in lymphangioleiomyomatosis patients without history of pleurodesis or thoracic surgeries for pneumothorax.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2020Article
- Does a gender have something to do with clinical pictures of primary spontaneous pneumothorax?General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2020Article
- Long-term effects of pleural defect repair using sheet materials in a canine model.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2020Article
- A novel dual-covering method in video-assisted thoracic surgery for pediatric primary spontaneous pneumothorax.Surgery today · 2019Article
- Spontaneous pneumothorax-associated with genetic disorders.Therapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseReview
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Abstract
backgroundBirt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is a recently recognized inherited multiple cystic lung disease causing recurrent pneumothoraces. Similarly to the lesions in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), the pulmonary cysts are innumerable and widely dispersed and cannot all be removed. We recently described a total pleural covering (TPC) that covers the entire visceral pleura with oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC) mesh. TPC successfully prevented the recurrence of pneumothorax in LAM patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of an ORC pleural covering on pneumothorax recurrence in BHDS patients.
resultsThis retrospective study enrolled a total of 81 pneumothorax patients with the diagnosis of BHDS who underwent 90 covering surgeries from January 2010 to August 2017 at Tamagawa Hospital. During the first half of the study period, a lower pleural covering (LPC) which covered the affected area with ORC mesh was mainly used to treat 38 pneumothoraces. During the second half of the study period, TPC was primarily performed for 52 pneumothoraces. All the thoracoscopic surgeries were successfully performed without serious complications (≥ Clavien-Dindo grade III). The median follow-up periods after LPC/TPC were 66/34 months, respectively. Pneumothorax recurrence rates after LPC at 2.5/5/7.5 years postoperatively were 5.4/12/42%, respectively; none of the patients who had underwent TPC developed postoperative pneumothorax recurrence (P = 0.032).
conclusionsTPC might be an effective option for surgical treatment of intractable pneumothorax in patients with BHDS.
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