(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1996) Basson, Elizabeth; Coetzee, A. R.; Stewart, R. I.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dept. of Surgery.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Concomitant pulmonary dysfunction such as airway obstruction, lung fibrosis and/ or pulmonary hypertension limits a patient's cardiopulmonary reserve. It is clear from the literature that the presence of co-existing disease and cardiopulmonary dysfunction places patients undergoing lung resection at increased risk for the development of postoperative complications, prolonged disability and death (Olsen et al, 1989). In the course of the past 36 years numerous attempts have been to clarify the issue of reliable predictions of post-lung resection morbidity and mortality (Olsen et al, 1989).
The goal of the present study was to devise a method to predict the success of lung resection in terms of postoperative exercise capacity.