Publications by authors named "Frankie Mbadinga"
Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the thoracic robotic approach in a high-volume center regarding procedures and clinical outcomes after 1,000 procedures.
Methods: In a single-center subset of the Epithor® database, a prospective cohort database of French thoracic surgery, we analyzed procedural characteristics and clinical outcomes from February 2014 to April 2023. A surgical technique for lung surgery was conducted with a four-arm closed chest with the port access approach and vascular sewing and knotting were preferred over stapling.
Objectives: To assess the current practice of pulmonary metastasectomy at 15 European Centres. Short- and long-term outcomes were analysed.
Methods: Retrospective analysis on patients ≥18 years who underwent curative-intent pulmonary metastasectomy (January 2010 to December 2018).
Background: Nowadays, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) are known to be safe and efficient surgical procedures to treat early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We assessed whether RATS increased disease-free survival (DFS) compared with VATS for lobectomy and segmentectomy.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study included patients treated for resectable NSCLC performed by RATS or VATS, in our tertiary care center from 2012 to 2019.
Article Synopsis
- Minimally invasive lung surgeries are more complex in obese patients, leading researchers to compare robotic surgery (RTS) with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).
- A study analyzed data from 8,108 obese patients with non-small cell lung cancer who underwent these procedures from 2015 to 2019, revealing that VATS had over a 5 times higher likelihood of requiring conversion to thoracotomy compared to RTS.
- Additionally, VATS patients experienced longer hospital stays, higher rates of respiratory failure, and were less likely to be discharged home compared to those undergoing RTS.