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Ibrahim Bulent Cetindag

Publications and source records attributed to Ibrahim Bulent Cetindag.

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Acute and chronic reduction of pulmonary function after lung surgery.

Pulmonary function is affected by several variables. The more marginal the patient, the more important the preoperative and perioperative assessment becomes. VATS might be tolerated well with regard to pulmonary function in the early postoperative period. It has allowed thoracic surgeons to expand surgical indications to patients that previously would not have been considered.

Humans↗

Historical perspectives.

The history of surgery for emphysema is filled with numerous surgical attempts to improve the disorder. Although many of these procedures have proved to be futile, lung volume reduction surgery has now arrived. This article outlines the progression of procedures and the logic for which they were thought to be of benefit.

History, 17th Century↗