Population
62 patients with primary lung cancer who underwent a pneumonectomy from 1979 through 1992
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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May aid postoperative risk stratification after pneumonectomy; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
High serum LDH, low predicted FEV1, and failure to extubate postoperatively are independent predictors of major complications following pneumonectomy for lung cancer.
Mitsudomi et al. (1996) studied this question.