[Surgical management of pulmonary disease due to nontuberculous mycobacteria].
Between 1983 and 1998, 9 patients with nontuberculous mycobacteriosis (NTM) underwent pulmonary resection. 8 patients were men and 1 was woman. Mean length of preoperative period was 20.3 months (range 6 months to 51 months). Most operative indication was localized NTM resistant to multidrug therapy. Lobectomy was performed in 7 patients, segmentectomy in one, partial resection in one. We have no operative mortality but air leaks occurred in one and he needed thoracoplasty. Mean postoperative follow up period was 67.7 months. Only one patients relapsed 34 months after the first operation. For localized NTM, early surgical management results good outcome.
Watanabe
M
M
Department of Surgery, National Sapporo Minami Hospital, Japan.
Ohsaka
Y
Y
Hirai
Y
Y
Honma
J
J
Takase
H
H
Hirata
T
T
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000601:surgery*; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000601:surgery; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures