[Non-small cell lung cancer in patient with visceral total inversion].

This article reports a case of non-small cell lung cancer in a 74-year-old man with visceral total inversion. The epidemiology and main anatomical differences present in this rare syndrome, as well as basic information on lung cancer, are explored. We present diagnostic procedures and their results and describe the surgical technique of lung cancer treatment performed in this rare case.

[The influence of immunosuppression on vancomycin concentration in the rat allogenic lung transplant].

Aim: To assess the influence of conventional immunosuppression on vancomycin concentration in the rat allogenic lung transplant basing on acute and hyperacute rejection models.

Material And Methods: Left lung allotransplantations were performed from Brown Norway donors to Fisher F 344 recipients in the acute rejection model (animals were sacrificed 5 days after transplantation), and from Brown Norway donors to Wistar recipients in the hyperacute rejection model (animals were sacrificed 2 days after transplantation). Immunosuppression (cyclosporin A 5 mg/kg b.

Additional pulmonary resections after pneumonectomy: actual long-term survival and functional results.

Objective: Pulmonary resections after pneumonectomy due to metastases or metachronous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are rare because of the high potential risk of the second procedure and uncertain long-term results. On the basis of our series (largest in Europe) we tried to assess the long-term survival of patients treated in stage IV NSCLC.

Methods: Retrospective analysis was carried out on 18 patients treated at our department by pneumonectomy followed by additional resection in the years 1981-2002 (15 males and 3 females, 44-69 years, mean 57).