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Video-assisted thoracoscopic sterilization for exacerbation of chronic empyema thoracis
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Study Objective:
To investigate the efficacy of video-assisted thoracoscopic sterilization to treat patients with exacerbation of chronic empyema thoracis.
Design:
Case reports and literature review.
Setting:
Academic department of surgery.
Patients:
Two elderly, debilitated patients with worsening, chronic empyema thoracis as diagnosed by radiographs, CT, and thoracentesis. Both patients had a history of therapeutic pneumothorax for tuberculosis without bronchopleural fistulas.
Interventions:
Video-assisted thoracoscopic sterilization of the thoracic cavity.
Measurements And Results:
There was no recurrence of empyema during a 6-year follow-up period for one patient and a 2.5-year follow-up period for the other patient.
Conclusions:
Video-assisted thoracoscopic sterilization is a minimally invasive useful treatment for elderly or debilitated patients with exacerbation of chronic empyema thoracis.
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