Follow up Study of Pneumonectomy for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Choi, Byung Woo; Yoo, Hae Sung

doi:1971.18.2.27

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 18(2); 1971 > Article

Original Article

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1971;18(2):27-31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1971.18.2.27 Published online June 1, 1971.

Follow up Study of Pneumonectomy for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Byung Woo Choi, Hae Sung Yoo

Dept. of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

폐결핵에 대한 편폐전척의 성적

최병우, 유회성

Abstract

Patients of far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis needed pneumonectomy in this country have been increased year by year because of planned and continuous anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy failure. As patients are in conditions of ① diffuse destroyed lung, ② drug resistance and ③ decreased pulmonary function, in general complications following pneumonectomy are rather hígher and its mortality is in 10 % to and fro. We report follow up study of 113 cases of pneumonectomy for far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis during 3 years from March 1959 to Dec. 1962 at Dept. of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in National Medical Center.