Video-assisted Thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for lung cancer does not induce a procoagulant state.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Changes in the coagulation system in patients undergoing surgery for lung cancer have been sparsely investigated and the impact of the surgical trauma on the coagulation system is largely unknown in these patients. An increased knowledge could potentially improve the thromboprophylaxis regimes. The aim of this study was to assess the coagulation profile evoked in patients undergoing curative surgery by Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) lobectomy for primary lung cancer.

Methods

Thirty-one patients diagnosed with primary lung cancer undergoing VATS lobectomy were prospectively included. The coagulation profile was assessed preoperatively and in the first two days postoperatively using a wide range of standard coagulation tests, dynamic whole blood

SUBMITTER: Christensen TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5738757 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature