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Surgical Treatment of MDR Pulmonary Tuberculosis  

Seo, Young-Jun (Dept. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine)
Park, Hoon (Dept. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine)
Park, Chang-Kwon (Dept. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine)
Keum, Dong-Yoon (Dept. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine)
Yoo, Young-Sun (Dept. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.36, no.11, 2003 , pp. 839-845 More about this Journal
Abstract
Background: Even today when chemotherapy has been established as a treatment for tuberculosis and the prevalence of tuberculosis is gradually decreasing, multi-drug resistance tuberculosis still results in poor treatment performance and lowered survival periods. This research sought to analyze the surgery of multi-drug resistance tuberculosis, and determine the usefulness and danger of surgery in connection with this disease. Material and Method: Starting from February 1990 to February 2002, retrospective surveys were conducted targeted at 21 cases involving 20 patients who underwent surgery due to multi-drug resistance tuberculosis. The survey included 14 males cases and 6 females cases with the age averaging 42.8$\pm$12.1 years. 10.3$\pm$7.6 years on average passed after patients were initially diagnosed with tuberculosis. 13 patients (65%) tested positive in the pre-operative sputum AFB test, and all showed resistance against an average of 3.5 anti-tuberculosis agents including INH and RFP. Pre-operative radiologic examinations revealed cavitary lesions in 15 patients (75%), and three patients had lesions in the both lung fields, with the major lesions existing in the unilateral area. 13 patients (75%) failed negative conversion with medical treatment, while two patients (10%) with recurrent hemoptysis and five patients (25%) with lesions involving high recurrence-rate received the operation. Operations included nine cases (40%) of pneumonectomy, nine cases (45%) of lobectomy, and three cases of lobectomy with segmentectomy. The average follow-up period of patients stood at 23 months. Result: There was no post-operative death, and found were a total of eleven cases involving complications were found: three cases of long-term air leakage, three cases of bleeding requiring re-operation, two cases of empyemas due to broncho-pleural fistula, and one case of atelectasis, wound infection and chest wall fistula each. Eleven cases (85%) of negative conversion were completed immediately after the operation, and two cases failed negative conversion. Eleven months after the operation, the disease recurred in one case of negative conversion patients, and the patient was cured by completion pneumonectomy. Conclusion: If patients' lung function was sufficient and appropriate resection was possible, multi-drug resistance tuberculosis could achieve high-rate negative conversion and cure using combination of surgical and medical treatment, and also there were not many serious complications.
Keywords
Tuberculosis; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Lung surgery; Lung infection;
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