[Postoperative septic complications in patients operated on for thoracic neoplasms]

Arch Monaldi Mal Torace. 1990 May-Jun;45(3):167-73.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

The authors executed a prospective clinic study evaluating, whether at the admittance or after surgery, the immunity status of 30 patients with a thoracic neoplasm, admitted to Department of Thoracic Surgery, I School of Medicine, Naples. Only 21 of them, immunodepressed at the admittance, were accepted to trial and assigned respectively to A Group destined to surgery (10 patients) and to B check Group (11 patients). In the A Group the effectiveness of the immunotherapy was valued in the prophylaxis and in the postoperative septic complications' therapy. The global incidence of those complications was of 6 cases, of which 10% only in A Group and 45% in B Group. In the operated patients the septic complications had few repercussions on general status and were rapidly and totally dominated in strict correlation with an adequate immunoreconstitution.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract
  • Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / therapeutic use
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host / drug effects
  • Immunocompromised Host / immunology
  • Italy / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Complications / epidemiology
  • Postoperative Complications / immunology
  • Postoperative Complications / prevention & control*
  • Prospective Studies
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / complications*
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / immunology
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic