Risk factors influencing postoperative pleural empyema in patients with pleural mesothelioma: a retrospective single-centre analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Postoperative empyema is a severe, potentially lethal complication also present, but poorly studied in patients undergoing surgery for pleural mesothelioma. We aimed to analyse which perioperative characteristics might be associated with an increased risk for postoperative empyema.

Methods

From September 1999 to February 2023 a retrospective analysis of consecutive patients undergoing surgery for pleural mesothelioma at the University Hospital of Zurich was performed. Uni- and multivariable logistic regression was used to identify associated risk factors of postoperative empyema after surgery.

Results

A total of 400 PM patients were included in the analysis, of which n = 50 patients developed empyema after surgery (12.5%). Baseline demographics were compara

SUBMITTER: Henschke P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11055398 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature