[Hiatal hernia after esophagectomy].

Objective: To analyze the causes and surgical treatment of hiatal hernia after esophagectomy, technical features of surgery and methods of prevention.

Material And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the incidence of postoperative hiatal hernias after esophagectomy in patients with esophageal cancer between 2018 and 2023. Structure of hernias, surgical options and postoperative results were assessed.

Clinical Characteristics and Management of Checkpoint Inhibitor Pneumonitis in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients After Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy.

Objective: Neoadjuvant immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has shown promising results for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. However, it has been associated with immune-related adverse events (irAEs), including checkpoint inhibitor pneumonitis (CIP), which can be life-threatening.

Methods: This retrospective study analysed the medical records of 197 NSCLC patients who underwent neoadjuvant checkpoint inhibitor therapy to investigate the incidence, clinical characteristics, and management of CIP.

Predictive model for intraoperative decision-making in video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: optimizing chest drain placement for high-risk patients.

Background: For years, it has been the common and widely accepted practice in thoracic surgery to place apical and basal drains after a lobectomy to completely drain the pleural cavity. With the development of thoracoscopic technology, it became apparent that the use of a single chest tube provided the same clinical results. However, sometimes tension pneumothorax occurs with the need for additional pleural drainage.

[Laparoscopic repair of hiatal hernia after minimally invasive esophagectomy].

Postoperative hiatal hernia is a rare and specific complication after esophagectomy. This complication leads to emergency and affects mortality. Incidence of this complication has increased due to the great number of minimally invasive procedures over the past decades.

[Chest wall reconstruction with a non-rigid synthetic rib prosthesis: a multicenter study].

Unlabelled: Chest wall resection is performed for a variety of diseases, for primary rib and soft tissue tumors, metastatic lesions, or locally invasive growth of lung and mediastinal tumors being the most common indications. Following the resection phase, it is essential to determine the method of chest wall reconstruction that will restore the structural function, preserve pulmonary biomechanics, reduce the likelihood of residual pleural space, pulmonary hernia, and protect intrathoracic organs. The main objective of this study is to investigate the outcomes of chest wall resection with reconstruction using Codubix material.