VATS Right Upper Lobe Anterior Segmentectomy in Post Left Pneumonectomy: Technique / 中国肺癌杂志

Lung resection following pneumonectomy for recurrent lung cancer is a challenging scenario. Peri-operative airway management and choice of surgical procedure are issues to be addressed by both the anesthesiologists and thoracic surgeons. We hereby report a case of anterior segmentectomy of the right upper for recurrent lung cancer, in a patient who had previously underwent pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer one year earlier. A modified conventional tracheal intubation and unique surgical techniques were applied for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) anterior segmentectomy of the right upper lobe in a patient with a notable mediastinal shift (following contralateral pneumonectomy), resulting in a good recovery and clinical outcome. The clinical experience is summarized in detail in this article.

Summary and treatment of special situations in subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery / 中华胸心血管外科杂志

Objective To explore the special situation in subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery and summarize the treatment strategies.Methods In September 2014,the subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery was carried out.Up to now,our research team has completed more than 300 subxiphoid uniportal VATS operations,especially including 242 cases of subxiphoid uniportal VATS segmentectomy and 22 cases of subxiphoid uniportal VATS mediastinal tumor resection.Some special situations were encountered during the operation,including cardiac arrest,pericardial tamponade,innominate venous injury,severe arrhythmia,difficulty in positioning the lung segment,and difficulty in positioning the small nodule et al.Results Some patients changed the surgical procedure during surgery due to intraoperative emergencies such as severe arrhythmia,heart problems,intraoperative bleeding.Postoperative complications mainly included thoracotomy and hemostasis,continuous air leak after operation,pulmonary hematoma,arrhythmia,and no perioperative death.Conclusion Under the subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery is an important manifestation of the minimally invasive technique of the chest.It is safe and feasible to select suitable cases,master the thoracoscopic technique and special surgical techniques.Special situations during subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery should be known.

Summary and treatment of special situations in subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery / 中华胸心血管外科杂志

Objective@#To explore the special situation in subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery and summarize the treatment strategies.@*Methods@#In September 2014, the subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery was carried out. Up to now, our research team has completed more than 300 subxiphoid uniportal VATS operations, especially including 242 cases of subxiphoid uniportal VATS segmentectomy and 22 cases of subxiphoid uniportal VATS mediastinal tumor resection. Some special situations were encountered during the operation, including cardiac arrest, pericardial tamponade, innominate venous injury, severe arrhythmia, difficulty in positioning the lung segment, and difficulty in positioning the small nodule et al.@*Results@#Some patients changed the surgical procedure during surgery due to intraoperative emergencies such as severe arrhythmia, heart problems, intraoperative bleeding. Postoperative complications mainly included thoracotomy and hemostasis, continuous air leak after operation, pulmonary hematoma, arrhythmia, and no perioperative death.@*Conclusion@#Under the subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery is an important manifestation of the minimally invasive technique of the chest. It is safe and feasible to select suitable cases, master the thoracoscopic technique and special surgical techniques. Special situations during subxiphoid uniportal VATS surgery should be known.

Thinking on whether the BPF patients treated by open window thoracostomy after pulmonary resection / 中华胸心血管外科杂志

Objective Introduce the experience of open window thoracostomy in the treatment of bronchopleural fistula after pulmonary resection.To explore which patients are currently suitable for open window thoracostomy , how to deal with them after open window thoracostomy, and how to treat patients without window drainage.Methods In 2017, the thoracic surgery department of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital completed 13,341 thoracic surgeries, including 10 cases of open window thoracos-tomy, and patients with BPF after other pulmonary resection were treated with conservative thoracic closed drainage .Thoracic closed drainage therapy is often accompanied by thoracic irrigation.From January 2004 to December 2017, 21 cases of chronic refractory abscess treated with autologous musculocutaneous flap implantation after pulmonary resection and open window drain-age were summarized.The treatment of chronic refractory abscess after 14 years of diagnosis was divided into three stages.The first stage is opening the abscess cavity stage, namely opening the window drainage.The second stage is elimination of abscess cavity and closure of bronchial pleural fistula.The third stage is autologous musculocutaneous flap transplantation or displace-ment to fill the abscess cavity stage.Results Compared with before open window, the 10 patients with open window thoracos-tomy showed obvious improvement in thoracic and pulmonary infection, without perioperative death.Other patients with BPF af-ter pulmonary resection without open window thoracostomy died in 2 of conservative thoracic closed drainage .From January 2004 to December 2017, 19 patients(19/21) were successfully treated with autologous musculocutaneous flap implantation af-ter pulmonary resection and open window thoracostomy, without recurrence of empyema and necrosis of skin flap, and 2 cases (2/21) were not cured due to large bronchial fistula, and local recurrence of empyema, without perioperative death.Conclu-sion Most patients with BPF after pulmonary resection are treated with closed thoracic drainage , especially those with lower lo-bectomy and with pleural irrigation.Most patients can be cured.If patients with upper lobe, middle and upper lobectomy or pneumonectomy, accompanied by BPF, chest infection and poor drainage, it is easy to develop intrapulmonary infection sprea-ding.We should do open window thoracostomy as soon as possible.The removal of the residual cavity by filling musculocutane-ous flap after open window thoracostomy is a great improvement compared with the transthoracic reconstruction .

Autologous myocutaneous flap implantation for chronic refractory empyema: 26 cases report / 中华胸心血管外科杂志

Objective To summarize experience in the treatment of chronic refractory empyema with autologous myocutaneous flap implantation.Methods From January 2004 to December 2017,26 patients had been treated with autologous myocutaneous flap implantation in Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital for chronic refractory empyema.Among them,24 were men and 2 were women.The mediam age was 50.1 years(14-74 years).21 of them had medical histories of lung resection because of basic diseases(most of which accepted surgeries in other hospitals).Complications appeared after surgeries.15 of them had bronchopleural fistula while windowing,which could not be cured by conservative treatments such as drainage.Then we performed open-window thoracostomy and long-time dressing.6 of 21 had experienced pneumonectomy.Other 5 patients did not have primary operational histories.They experienced dressing by windowing because of chronic refractory empyema after the in effective conservative treatments like drainage without pulmonary re-expansion.Results No respiratory complications occurred in these patients.The catheters were successfully removed within 5 days and the patients were discharged within 3-6 weeks after the operations.The median follow-up period was 9 months.24 cases were successful with no recurrence of empyema or flap necrosis,the other 2 cases underwent recurrence of empyema.Conclusion The application of autologous myocutaneous flaps for the treatment of chronic refractory empyema is an effective and continuously improving method.

Clinical application of clock dial integrated positioning for small pulmonary nodules in VATS / 中华胸心血管外科杂志

Objective With the popularization of low dose chest CT examination,a large number of patients with pulmonary nodules(10 mm ＜ D≤20 mm) or small nodules(4 mm ＜ D≤10 mm) emerged.How to accurately position pulmonary nodules especially small nodules in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS) is the key.This study explores the positioning method for small pulmonary nodules in VATS.Methods From January 2012 to June 2014,we used a method named clock dial integrated positioning in 316 patients with pulmonary nodules who underwent limited resection or lobectomy in VATS,obtained satisfactory results.Results The accuracy of clock dial integrated positioning method in judgments was 99％ (313/316).296 cases underwent thoracoscopic sublobectomy,including thoracoscopic pulmonary segmental resection in 141 cases and thoracoscopic wedge resection in 155 cases.20 cases underwent thoracoscopic lobectomy.Among them 17 cases had multinodules which were in the different pulmonary segments of the same lobe.Underwent thoracoscopic lobectomy.The positions of 3 cases were error during early cases,underwent VATS lobectomy.The postoperative pathology:194 cases were lung cancer.37 cases were metastatic tumor.85 cases were benign lesions.Conclusion Combined with the clinical treatment experience,we believe that the clock dial integrated positioning method is effective for positioning in VATS.Clinical VATS experiences accumulations are also needed.

An experimental study of immune depression to donor origin cells induced by the mixed chimera after sublethal whole body irradiation / 中国免疫学杂志

Objective:To investigate the immune depression to donor-origin cells induced by the Mixed Chimera after sublethal whole body irradiation.Methods:Recipients in the experiment were Wistar and SD rat,and Wistar rats were selected as the donor.Donor and recipient rats were divided randomly into three groups.Recipient were conditioned with sublethal whole body irradiation (WBI).Group A was infused with bone marrow cells (BMC) of Wistar rats;group B infused with bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs)of Wistar rats;and group C with normal saline.Then they were administered cytoxan(CTX) by intraperitoneal injection.The mechanisms for immune depression were explored by performing mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR).Results:The results showed that donor lymphoid chimeras could be found in the immune depression SD rats and chimerac cells in group A was more than in group B by FCM assay (P