Treatment and intention-to-treat propensity score analysis to evaluate the impact of video-assisted thoracic surgery on 90-day mortality after anatomical resection for lung cancer.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to know the treatment effect of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) on 90-day mortality after anatomical lung resection based on a nationwide cohort.

Methods: This is a multicentre prospective cohort of 2721 anatomical resections for lung cancer from December 2016 to March 2018. Treatment and intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses were performed after inverse probability score weighting and different propensity score matching algorithms.

Surgical Risk Following Anatomic Lung Resection in Thoracic Surgery: A Prediction Model Derived from a Spanish Multicenter Database.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to develop a surgical risk prediction model in patients undergoing anatomic lung resections from the registry of the Spanish Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Group (GEVATS).

Methods: Data were collected from 3,533 patients undergoing anatomic lung resection for any diagnosis between December 20, 2016 and March 20, 2018. We defined a combined outcome variable: death or Clavien Dindo grade IV complication at 90 days after surgery.

Spanish Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Group: Method, Auditing, and Initial Results From a National Prospective Cohort of Patients Receiving Anatomical Lung Resections.

Introduction: Our study sought to know the current implementation of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for anatomical lung resections in Spain. We present our initial results and describe the auditing systems developed by the Spanish VATS Group (GEVATS).

Methods: We conducted a prospective multicentre cohort study that included patients receiving anatomical lung resections between 12/20/2016 and 03/20/2018.

Bronchoscopic sclerosis of post-resectional bronchial fistulas.

Background: Pulmonary resection is, by far, the primary cause of bronchial fistula. This is a severe complication because of its morbidity and mortality and the related consumption of resources. Definitive closure continues to be a challenge with several therapeutic options, but none are optimal.

Unnoticed swallowing of a unilateral removable partial denture.

Objective: This paper presents a case report about an unnoticed swallowing of a partial denture impacted in the esophagus in a 74-year old man without serious complications.

Background Data: Dental prostheses (removable/fixed dental prostheses or fragments of dentures) appear to constitute a significant proportion of swallowed of impacted foreign bodies in the orolaryngopharynx.

Conclusion: This case emphazises that is advisable to contraindicate this type of unilateral removable partial denture to replace teeth as temporary or definitive dental prosthesis.

Cross-industry standard process for data mining is applicable to the lung cancer surgery domain, improving decision making as well as knowledge and quality management.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of knowledge discovery in database methodology, based upon data mining techniques, to the investigation of lung cancer surgery.

Methods: According to CRISP 1.0 methodology, a data mining (DM) project was developed on a data warehouse containing records for 501 patients operated on for lung cancer with curative intention.

[Tracheoesophageal fistula in an intubated patient. Treatment through exclusion and esophageal patch].

Currently, acquired benign tracheoesophageal fistulas are mainly iatrogenic lesions produced by prolonged tracheal intubation. Their occurrence in intubated patients is infrequent but devastating and their therapeutic resolution is highly complex. We present the case of a patient with an extensive tracheoesophageal fistula following tracheal intubation that was surgically treated through esophageal exclusion (cervical esophagostomy and suture-stapling of the distal esophagus) and closure of the tracheal defect using the posterior esophageal wall.