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Surgical management of bronchiectasis: The indications and outcomes

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Purpose

Social limitations in addition to treatment failure, despite preventive precautions and aggressive medical treatment, are the main indications for surgery in patients with bronchiectasis. The aim of this study was to evaluate all aspects of treatment outcomes in surgically treated patients with bronchiectasis.

Methods

Ninety-two patients with bronchiectasis treated by a surgical resection between January 2002 and June 2007 were included in the study. Age, sex, symptoms, etiologic factors, radiological findings, surgical procedures, postoperative morbidity and mortality, and hospital stay were analyzed.

Results

Fifty-four patients were female and 38 were male, with an average age of 38.7 (range, 10–67) years, and 84.8% were symptomatic. The etiologic factors included frequent infections (37%), childhood infections (22%), tuberculosis (12%), foreign bodies (3%), and unknown causes (26%). Ten pneumonectomies, 36 lobectomies, 2 bilobectomies, 32 lobectomies and segmentectomies, and 12 segmentectomies were performed. The morbidity was 16%, the mortality was 1%, and the mean follow-up duration was 15.3 months. Follow-up data were obtained in 75 patients of whom 63 (84%) were asymptomatic, 8 (10.7%) were symptomatic with clinical improvement, and 4 (5.3%) had had no clinical improvement.

Conclusion

Despite the advances in preventive precautions, medical treatment, and follow-up, surgery, with its low mortality and morbidity rates, remains a good alternative in selected patients in the treatment of bronchiectasis, and fulfills the clinical and social improvement expectations of patients.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Izmir Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

    Soner Gursoy, Ali Ata Ozturk & Ahmet Ucvet

  2. Izmir Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

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Gursoy, S., Ozturk, A.A., Ucvet, A. et al. Surgical management of bronchiectasis: The indications and outcomes. Surg Today 40, 26–30 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-009-4013-x

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