Primary pneumothorax:Should surgery be offered after the first episode?

• 作者: Alan DL Sihoe Jerry WL Yeung Peter SY Yu
• 来源期刊: 世界呼吸病学杂志
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: HEALTH economics HEALTH policy Outcomes Pleural space(drainage management) PLEURODESIS PNEUMOTHORAX SURGERY THORACOSCOPY VIDEO-ASSISTED thoracic SURGERY
• 年，卷（期）: 2015,（1）
• 页码范围: 47-57
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: R

摘要

Surgery is the recommended and most effective means of preventing the recurrence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax(PSP).However,the conventional belief amongst most clinicians is that surgery should not be routinely offered to patients with an uncomplicated first episode of PSP.The view that surgery should be reserved for recurrent episodes of ipsilateral PSP is based on an apprehension regarding traumatic thoracic surgery combined with a perception that recurrences after a single episode of PSP are unlikely.Modern advances in minimally invasive thoracic surgery have now dramatically reduced the morbidity of PSP surgery.Such surgery is now safe,effective and causes minimal indisposition for patients.On the other hand,modern clinical data suggests that recurrence rate of PSP is perhaps much higher than previously assumed,with more than half of patients experiencing a second episode within several years of the first.With such new appreciations of the current situation,it is appropriate to now consider offering surgery to patients even after the first episode of PSP.