RESPİRATORY FUNCTİON TEST İN POSTOPERATİVE COMPLİCATİON PREDİCTİON İN PATİENTS RESECTED DUE TO SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER

Abstract

Complication is unplanned and undesirable secondary disease. Thoracic surgery is known for the excess of postoperative complications relatively to other surgical branches.The average rate of complications after pulmonary resection due to lung cancer is 30-40%. In this study, pulmonary function tests and postoperative complications were evaluated together in patients undergoing resection due to primary lung cancer, and the relationship between pulmonary function test and the occurrence of postoperative complications was evaluated. In this retrospective study, 87 male, 13 female, between the ages of 26 and 77, who underwent anatomical resection due to non-small cell lung cancer before August 2007 in Sureyyapaşa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital 3. Chest Surgery Clinic, 100 patients were included. FEV1(Forced Expiratory Volume) (%) levels of uncomplicated cases were found to be statistically significantly higher than FEV1 (%) of cases with complications (p <0.01). There is a statistically significant difference between the FVC (Forced vital capacity) (%) levels of the cases according to the presence of complications (p <0.05). FEV1 / FVC (%) levels of uncomplicated cases were found to be statistically significantly higher than FEV1 / FVC (%) levels of cases with complications (p <0.01).FEF 25-75 (Forced Expiratory Flow) (%) levels of uncomplicated cases were found to be statistically significantly higher than FEF 25-75 (%) of cases with complications (p <0.01). In conclusion, we believe that in the patients who are planned to have lung resection although FEV1 (%), FVC (%), Tiffeneau ratio (FEV1 / FVC%), FEF 25-75 (%) are not gold standards, these parameters are valuable in the postoperative mortality estimation.