title: Surgical management of pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare.
abstract: Of 131 patients with pulmonary infections due to Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, 124 had excisional surgery plus chemotherapy. Seven had definitive thoracoplasties. Postoperative complications of various degrees developed in 24% of those who had surgery. Bronchopleural fistulae requiring thoracoplasties occurred in seven patients. Nine patients died in the postoperative period. The sputum of 93% of the patients became negative for M. avium-intracellulare, and 5% of the patients had bacteriologic relapse. Only two of the 122 patients who survived surgery died from progressive pulmonary infection due to M. avium-intracellulare.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D010131:Aminosalicylic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000601:surgery; D009162:Mycobacterium avium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D010131:Aminosalicylic Acid