Predictive factors of cough after uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic pulmonary resection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cough is one of the shared complications after lung surgery. In this study, a prospective analysis was conducted for exploring the risk factors of persistent cough after uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic pulmonary resection.

Methods

One hundred thirty-five patients with pulmonary nodules who underwent surgical treatment in the same surgical group from November 2019 to January 2020 were enrolled in this prospective study. The severity of cough and its impact on patients' quality of life before and after surgery were assessed by the Mandarin Chinese version of the Leicester cough questionnaire (LCQ-MC), and postoperative cough was tested by the cough visual analog scale (VAS) and cough symptom score (CSS). Risk factors of cough after pulmonary resection (CAP) w

SUBMITTER: Pan LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7656438 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature