Possible lymph dissection complications in lung carcinoma and ways of their prophylaxis
Up to now the frequency of postoperative complications (25-30%) and lethality remain sufficiently high. It is closely related to traumas of pulmonary operations which demand substantial efforts of compensatory mechanisms. These operations are often performed to persons of elderly age with concomitant diseases, debilitated by neoplastic and/or inflammatory processes, with acute hemodynamic, gas exchange and metabolic derangements. In our research 32 (21,3%) of 150 operated patients had different complications which were followed by systematic mediastinal bilateral lymph dissection. «Surgical» complications made 13,3%, «non-surgical» made 8,0%. The postoperative lethality was studied on the basis of a three-month period passed after the moment of the operative intervention. The general lethality among the operated patients made 6,7% (10 of 150).