Abstract: Postoperative lung problems (PPC) prevail, severe conditions highly associated with an increased morbidity after major non-cardiac surgery.1 In fact the incidence of PPC is very just like the incidence of cardiovascular complications in patients going through non-cardiac surgery and greatly adds to increase postoperative length of hospital stay and costs. Pay Per Click have actually been extensively specified as pneumonia, aspiration pneumonitis, respiratory tract infection, respiratory failure, atelectasis, pleural effusion, pneumothorax, bronchospasm and so on . Database searches yielded a total of 6 229 articles. Excluding 5870 non-pertinent titles or abstracts, we recovered in total form and assessed 359 studies according to the selection criteria. Due to the fact that of our prespecified exemption requirements, one hundred forty-six research studies were further left out.Despite several studies on long-term and short outcome after open abdominal aortic surgery have been published so far, few of them focused on PPC. Moreover, most of published literature didn't concentrate on the identification and classification of PPC, since "unspecified respiratory complications" was the largest reported category, incredibly accounting for 48,412 events (22.9% of patients), while pneumonia only for 4598 events (7.6% of patients).
Nonetheless, literature clearly shows that incidence of PPC after open abdominal aortic surgery is extremely high and strongly contributes to increase postoperative morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing vascular surgery procedures.
The aim of this systematic review was to obtain a photo of the real incidence of PPC after open abdominal aortic surgery and the effect on survival.
Keywords: Postoperative lung problems (PPC), abdominal aortic surgery.
Title: Updated Review of Pulmonary Complications after Aortic Surgery: Systematic Review
Author: ALSULAIMI, ABDULLAH MATAR M, ALSHAMRANI, MOHAMMED DAIL A
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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