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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2020

Uniportal video assisted thoracoscopy versus open surgery for pulmonary hydatid disease-a single center experience.

Firas Abu Akar, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Bisanne Shaqqura, Waseem Salman, Mahmoud Ismail, Tammah Safadi, Rabee Adwan, Haitham Al-Hassan, Nisreen Rumman, Nizar Hijjeh

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Thoracic surgery in Palestine.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Firas Abu AkarDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Diego Gonzalez-RivasDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200433, China.
Bisanne ShaqquraDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Waseem SalmanDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Mahmoud IsmailDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann Academic Hospital of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Tammah SafadiDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Rabee AdwanInfectious Diseases Unit, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Haitham Al-HassanDivision of Surgery, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Nisreen RummanDepartment of Pediatrics, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Nizar HijjehDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
Al-Makassed Islamic Charitable Society Hospital · ILCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEUniversidade da Coruña · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAlthough rare in the Western world, the incidence of hydatid disease is still prevalent and strikingly endemic among the Palestinians. Until 2017, surgical treatment of lung pathologies was performed through the traditional incision (open thoracotomy). Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) approach has recently been applied in the cases of the pulmonary hydatid cysts with very satisfactory results.

methodsBetween January 2010 and January 2019, 39 patients with pulmonary HC disease have been surgically treated. The cases divided into two cohorts: operations performed by thoracotomy classified as group A, (n=16). Operations performed by uniportal VATS classified as group B, (n=23). Prospectively collected data was analysed retrospectively, and the results compared between both groups.

resultsNo significant statistical differences were noticed in terms of demographics and comorbidity. Laboratory tests were similar except haemoglobin level, which was higher in group A (P=0.001). Despite that, blood transfusion was higher in group A (P=0.016). Moreover, operation time was longer in group A (P=0.000). Chest drainage remained longer in group A (P=0.077). The level of postoperative pain was significantly higher in group A certainly in POD 1 (P=0.000). Patients in group B discharged earlier from the hospital (P=0.011) and experienced lower complications (P=0.060). No significant difference in length of ICU stay. Neither recurrence nor 30-day mortality recorded in either group.

conclusionsUniportal VATS can be safely applied for pulmonary hydatidosis. It also seems to have a preference in several aspects compared to open Thoracotomy approach.

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Echinococcosisintra-operative ultrasoundpulmonary hydatid cystpulmonary parasitic infestationuniportal VATS

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PMID32274146
PMCPMC7139009
OpenAlexW3000117669

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