Adipokines and systemic inflammation in weight-losing lung cancer patients.

Background: Cancer cachexia is a devastating condition leading to loss of function and independence, decreased performance status, decreased quality of life, and poor prognosis. Adipokines play a role in a wide variety of physiological or pathological processes, including immunity and inflammation, in addition to having significant effects on metabolism and lipogenesis. The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship of adipokines and systemic inflammation in weight-losing advanced-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Osteopontin as a marker of weight loss in lung cancer.

Although the role of osteopontin (OPN) in tumorigenesis and invasiveness is well-known, its role in systemic consequences of lung cancer has not been studied yet. The objective of the current study was to assess the value of osteopontin as a marker of weight loss in relation to systemic inflammation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. A total of 63 male NSCLC patients (stage III and IV) and 25 age and sex-matched controls were included.

Postresectional lung injury in thoracic surgery pre and intraoperative risk factors: a retrospective clinical study of a hundred forty-three cases.

Introduction: Acute respiratory dysfunction syndrome (ARDS), defined as acute hypoxemia accompanied by radiographic pulmonary infiltrates without a clearly identifiable cause, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality after pulmonary resection. The aim of the study was to determine the pre and intraoperative factors associated with ARDS after pulmonary resection retrospectively.

Methods: Patients undergoing elective pulmonary resection at Adnan Menderes University Medical Faculty Thoracic Surgery Department from January 2005 to February 2010 were included in this retrospective study.

PEComa (clear cell "sugar" tumor) of the lung: a benign tumor that presented with thrombocytosis.

Perivascular epithelioid cell tumors of the lung are rare, benign neoplasms, usually presenting as a solitary pulmonary nodule on chest roentgenograms. Most lesions are solitary and asymptomatic, and are located within the peripheral lung. This is a case report of a 44-year-old woman who presented with thrombocytosis and solitary pulmonary nodule of the lung, which was removed by a thoracotomy.