First awake uniportal video assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy in Turkey

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Karaçam V., Sağıroğlu G., Karcı E., Mutlu F., Kaya İ.

Current Thoracic Surgery, vol.8, no.3, pp.155-159, 2023 (SCI-Expanded, TRDizin)

  • Publication Type: Article / Case Report
  • Volume: 8 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2023
  • Doi Number: 10.26663/cts.2023.0028
  • Journal Name: Current Thoracic Surgery
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM), Index Copernicus
  • Page Numbers: pp.155-159
  • Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

As in all surgical branches, the importance of minimally invasive

surgery in thoracic surgery has been increasing in recent years. Especially in

the last decade, the preference of thoracic surgeons is mostly in favor of

VATS. As a result of today's developing technology and experience,

minimally invasive surgery is not limited to surgical technique only, and

less invasive non-intubated methods have been started to be used in

anesthesia applications. While non-intubated (awake) VATS is usually

applied for reasons such as pleural effusion, empyema, hemothorax,

pneumothorax, it is now preferred for anatomical resection of the lung. We

also prefer the awake VATS method in suitable patients in our clinic. In this

study, we aimed to talk about our case in which we performed left lower

lobectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection with awake uVATS

(uniportal VATS) method in our clinic.