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==Overview== | |||
The mainstay of treatment for occupational lung disease is medical therapy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with progressive massive fibrosis or lung cancer. | |||
==Indications== | |||
*Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with occupational lung disease. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with either: | |||
**Progressive massive fibrosis | |||
**Lung cancer | |||
==Surgery== | |||
===Pneumonectomy=== | |||
Pneumonectomy is removal of the lung or part of the lung, and is reserved for progressive massive fibrosis or resectable lung cancer. | |||
==Contraindications== | |||
*Esophageal motility disorders | |||
*Gastric volvulus | |||
*Acute kidney injury | |||
*Lactation | |||
*Pneumopericardium | |||
*Postpneumonectomy paralysis | |||
*Postpneumonectomy scoliosis | |||
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[[Category:Pulmonology]] | [[Category:Pulmonology]] | ||
[[Category:Occupational diseases]] | [[Category:Occupational diseases]] | ||
[[Category:Disease]] | [[Category:Disease]] | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Hadeel Maksoud M.D.[2]
Overview
The mainstay of treatment for occupational lung disease is medical therapy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with progressive massive fibrosis or lung cancer.
Indications
- Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with occupational lung disease. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with either:
- Progressive massive fibrosis
- Lung cancer
Surgery
Pneumonectomy
Pneumonectomy is removal of the lung or part of the lung, and is reserved for progressive massive fibrosis or resectable lung cancer.
Contraindications
- Esophageal motility disorders
- Gastric volvulus
- Acute kidney injury
- Lactation
- Pneumopericardium
- Postpneumonectomy paralysis
- Postpneumonectomy scoliosis