Clinical Infectious Diseases · 1981 · 59 citations · 4 references
MedicineInfectious DiseasesSurgeryInfectious Disease PathologyMedical MicrobiologyPulmonologyPulmonary InfectionsPulmonary ResectionPulmonary TuberculosisRespiratory DiseaseRespiratory Tract InfectionsThoracic SurgeryBacterial Respiratory DiseaseComplications Of Lung ResectionExcisional TherapyMycobacterial DiseaseMycobacterium Tuberculosis InfectionNontuberculous Mycobacterial InfectionsOpportunistic Pulmonary Infections
Of 131 patients with pulmonary infections due to Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, 124 had excisional surgery plus chemotherapy. Seven had definitive thoracoplasties. Postoperative complications of various degrees developed in 24% of those who had surgery. Bronchopleural fistulae requiring thoracoplasties occurred in seven patients. Nine patients died in the postoperative period. The sputum of 93% of the patients became negative for M. avium-intracellulare, and 5% of the patients had bacteriologic relapse. Only two of the 122 patients who survived surgery died from progressive pulmonary infection due to M. avium-intracellulare.
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