Does video- assisted thoracoscopic surgery with bullectomy and partial pleurectomy for primary spontaneous pneumothorax impair health-related quality of life and pulmonary function? a prospective single-center analysis
- Conditions
- J93.0Spontaneous tension pneumothorax
- Registration Number
- DRKS00024922
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 25
Inclusion Criteria
Only patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with bullectomy and pleurectomy are included.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients under 18 and those patienten in which bullectomy and partial pleurectomy was not performed
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in health-related Quality of life one year after the surgical Treatment using the SF 36 Health Survey
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in pulmonary function measured by Spirometry one year after surgical treatment