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Surgery Offers High Cure Rates in Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis
- Source :
- Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 17:143-147
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Editorial Committee of Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2011.
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Abstract
- Purpose: Drug resistance has become a major problem in the treatment of tuberculosis, and pulmonary resection in combination with chemotherapy appears to be an effective measure for the treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the results of resection for multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Patients and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed case files from January 2003 to December 2006 of 13 patients with MDR-TB underwent pulmonary resection. Results: Of 13 patients, 7 (53.9%) were sputum positive for mycobacterium tuberculosis preoperatively, though after surgery, they were sputum negative. Lobectomy was performed in 8 (61.5%) and pneumonectomy, in 5 (38.5%). In the lobectomy group, 2 patients had an additional superior segmentectomy and 1 had a middle lobectomy for other segmental or lobar lesions. Operative mortality was 7.6% (1/13). There were no late surgical deaths. In the early postoperative period, 3 patients had serious complications (postoperative bleeding, prolonged air leak, expansion deficit, bronchopleural fistula and empyema) that were resolved with surgery (morbidity 23.0%). The 12 patients who survived the operation received appropriate chemotherapy and were followed up for 24-37 months. None of the patients relapsed, and the overall cure rate was 92.3% (12/13).Conclusion: Even with high morbidity in the early post-operative period, surgery, in addition to medical therapy, offers higher cure rates than only medical therapy; however, meticulous preoperative evaluation of patients is needed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Tuberculosis
Turkey
medicine.medical_treatment
Antitubercular Agents
Bronchopleural fistula
Risk Assessment
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Pneumonectomy
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
medicine
Humans
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Retrospective Studies
Chemotherapy
biology
business.industry
Patient Selection
Sputum
Gastroenterology
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
Middle Aged
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Empyema
Surgery
Treatment Outcome
Female
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21861005 and 13411098
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....554c8506e906819cd4be72724d82e5a0