China News Service, May 8 (Chen Jing and Deng Tian) 47-year-old Ms. Xu has a 7 cm diameter tumor in her pulmonary artery.
The operation of "digging" a tumor is extremely difficult and risky; if left alone, the tumor will further invade blood vessels and organs, endangering the life of the patient.
The multidisciplinary team of experts successfully completed the "thrilling" and highly difficult mediastinal tumor resection.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Chest Hospital
The reporter learned on the 8th that the Shanghai Chest Hospital's Thoracic Surgery and Cardiac Surgery team successfully completed the "thrilling" and highly difficult mediastinal tumor resection.
Ms. Xu was rescued.
It is understood that Ms. Xu recently went to the hospital for examination due to a faint chest pain, and found that a tumor with a diameter of 7 cm had grown in her chest cavity.
Because of the difficulty of the operation, many hospitals indicated that they could not treat it.
The Shanghai Chest Hospital is her last hope.
Fang Wentao, director of thoracic surgery, told reporters: "Ms. Xu suffered from angiosarcoma, which is a mediastinal tumor that'grows' from blood vessels." The location of the tumor is very dangerous. Some of it grows in the large blood vessel of the right pulmonary artery and invades. The lung tissue is also tightly attached to the important blood vessels around the lungs and the heart, so the risk of resection is extremely high!
Multidisciplinary experts in thoracic surgery, cardiology, anesthesiology, etc. found out after discussion that to "dig out" the tumor in the pulmonary artery, extracorporeal circulation may be established during the operation; if the tumor invades the heart, the right atrium must be removed. Be prepared to implant a pacemaker.
In addition, the tumor is closely adhered to the surrounding vascular tissue, and a slight carelessness during the peeling will cause serious consequences such as hemorrhage. All emergency measures and plans must be prepared.
During the operation, after the team led by Director Fang Wentao of Thoracic Surgery Department and Director Zhu Dan of Cardiac Surgery Department to open Ms. Xu's chest cavity, the tumor adhesion was more serious than expected.
The experts carefully dissected and dissociated, and finally completely removed the tumor and the upper lobe of the right lung, and the tumor in the blood vessel was also removed cleanly.
On the basis of complete surgical resection, experts try to reduce the patient's surgical trauma as much as possible.
The patient was transferred out of the intensive care unit within three days and was soon discharged from the hospital.
Currently, Ms. Xu is recovering well after the operation.
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