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The utility of surgical lung biopsy in cancer patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, May 2013
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Title
The utility of surgical lung biopsy in cancer patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, May 2013
DOI 10.1186/1749-8090-8-128
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Chih-Hao Chang, Kuo-Chin Kao, Han-Chung Hu, Chen-Yiu Hung, Li-Fu Li, Ching-Yang Wu, Chih-Wei Wang, Jui-Ying Fu, Chung-Chi Huang, Ning-Hung Chen, Cheng-Ta Yang, Ying-Huang Tsai

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This retrospective study evaluated the utility and safety of surgical lung biopsy (SLB) in cancer patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). METHODS: All cases of critically ill patients with cancer and diagnosed with ARDS who underwent SLB in a tertiary care hospital from January 2002 to July 2009 were reviewed. Clinical data including patient baseline characteristics, surgical complications, pathological findings, treatment alterations, and survival outcomes were retrospectively collected and analyzed. RESULTS: A total of 16 critically ill patients with cancer diagnosed with ARDS who underwent SLB were enrolled. The meantime from ARDS onset to SLB was 3.0 +/- 1.5 days. All SLB specimens offered a pathological diagnosis, and specific diagnoses were made in 9 of 16 patients. Biopsy findings resulted in a change in therapy in 11 of 16 patients. Overall, the SLB surgical complication rate was 19% (3/16). SLB did not directly cause the observed operative mortality. The ICU mortality rate was 38% (6/16). Patients who switched therapies after SLB had a trend toward decreased mortality than patients without a change in therapy (27% versus 60%; P = 0.299). CONCLUSIONS: In selected critically ill cancer patients with ARDS, SLB had a high diagnostic yield rate and an acceptable surgical complication rate.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 19%
Student > Bachelor 2 13%
Student > Postgraduate 2 13%
Professor 2 13%
Other 1 6%
Other 3 19%
Unknown 3 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 38%
Psychology 1 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Sports and Recreations 1 6%
Physics and Astronomy 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 November 2014.
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