ArticleMolecular and clinical oncology2021
A preliminary study identifies early postoperative lung volume changes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer following video-assisted thoracic surgery using CT volumetry.
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Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the changes in early postoperative lung volume in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and to analyze the effects of the clinical characteristics on the lung volume of the patients. Therefore, 38 patients with NSCLC, who planned to undergo VATS at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University in June 2019, were enrolled into the present study. The clinical and computed tomography (CT) scan data from the patients was prospectively collected within 1 week preoperatively, and at 1, 3 and 6 months following surgery, then subsequently analyzed. A total of 34 patients successfully completed follow-up and were included in the datasets. The results showed that the volume of the right lung was larger compared with that in the left one, at each observational time point. The whole, right and left lung held the same trendline of volume changes, which was sharply decreased during the first postoperative month, increased quickly over the next 3 months, and slowly increased from months 3 to 6. There were 7 patients, whose whole lung volume was increased at 6 months following surgery compared with that preoperatively. In addition, significant differences were observed between males and females in the whole, right and left lung volume. However, the differences on the postoperative net expansion volume of the whole lung were not significant among sex, age, body mass index (BMI), smoking status and surgical side subgroups. The early changes of the postoperative lung volume were not linear, since the lung volume was significantly reduced during the first postoperative month, quickly increased in the next 3 months, and slowly increased from months 3 to 6. Sex, age, BMI, smoking status and surgical sides was not found to affect the postoperative volume and net expansion of the whole lung following VATS lobectomy.
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