Lung volume reduction surgery since the National Emphysema Treatment Trial: Study of Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database

• Published in: The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Vol. 148; no. 6; pp. 2651 - 2658.e1
• Main Authors: Decker, Marquita R., Leverson, Glen E., Jaoude, Wassim Abi, Maloney, James D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.12.2014
• Subjects: Aged; Benchmarking; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Chi-Square Distribution; Databases, Factual; Female; Forced Expiratory Volume; Humans; Lung - physiopathology; Lung - surgery; Male; Middle Aged; Patient Selection; Pneumonectomy - adverse effects; Pneumonectomy - mortality; Pneumonectomy - standards; Pneumonectomy - trends; Practice Patterns, Physicians' - standards; Practice Patterns, Physicians' - trends; Pulmonary Emphysema - diagnosis; Pulmonary Emphysema - mortality; Pulmonary Emphysema - physiopathology; Pulmonary Emphysema - surgery; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Societies, Medical; Thoracoscopy - adverse effects; Thoracoscopy - mortality; Thoracoscopy - standards; Thoracoscopy - trends; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; 11; NETT; STS; 14; CMS; LVRS; COPD; lung volume reduction surgery; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; National Emphysema Treatment Trial; Society of Thoracic Surgeons; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The National Emphysema Treatment Trial demonstrated that lung volume reduction surgery is an effective treatment for emphysema in select patients. With chronic lower respiratory disease being the third leading cause of death in the United States, this study sought to assess practice patterns and out...