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Surgical Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis  

Kim, Jin Hee (National Masan Tuberculosis Hospital)
Min, Jin Hong (National Masan Tuberculosis Hospital)
Park, Jun Ho (National Masan Tuberculosis Hospital)
Park, Seung Kyu (National Masan Tuberculosis Hospital)
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases / v.59, no.6, 2005 , pp. 613-618 More about this Journal
Abstract
Background : Recently, medical treatment of multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis has been unsuccessful. Through analyzing the cases with surgical treatment, we hope to provide some help in treating multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in the future. Material and Method : A retrospective review was performed with 138cases of surgical treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis during 10years from January 1994 to December 2003 at National Masan Hospital. Results : The ratio of men to women, 5.1:1 indicates that there were more incidences in men. The number of the resistant drugs was 5.3 with a mean age of 42.6 years. Cavitary lesions on the plain chest X-rays were seen in 94cases (68.1%). 128cases had positive sputum culture preoperatively. Types of operations were 24 pnemonectomies, 83 lobectomies, 10 bilobectomies, 19 lobectomies with segmentectomies or wedge resections, 1 wedge resection, and 1 carvenoplasty. There was no death after operation. There were 6cases of air leakage over a week, 6cases of postoperative bleeding, 8cases of bronchopleural fistula and empyema, 16cases of dead space, 1case of atelectasis, 1case of wound infection, 1case of cyst as postoperative complication. Postoperative complication showed higher long-term negative conversion rate of 92.8%. Conclusion : There has been many discussions about operative indications, postoperative drug regimens, length of postoperative chemotherapy. In our study, we showed higher long-term success rate of postoperative chemotherapy with pulmonary resection on multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis.
Keywords
Pulmonary tuberculosis; Surgical treatment; Multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis;
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