Dear Lori and Tom...I don't know exactly what you are asking, but somehow
I get the impression someone, maybe one of your parents is contemplating
having a lung removed. This is my very humble opinion, but I would
certainly look the situation over very, very extensively and get lots of
second opinions. I have quite a lot of experience in this particular
respect, as I've been dealing with the prospect of lung removal for the
past 2 years myself and have done much research in that area.
I recently was potentially being considered a candidate for just such
a surgery and the tests that they considered absolutely essential in order
to evaluate eligibility were:
1. Mediastinoscopy - to check for lymph node involvement - incision
through neck to trachea and sternum area.
2. Pulmonary function test
3. Qunatitative profusion Scan
4. Cardiac ejection fraction
5. Echocardiogram.
I am no doctor, so I certainly would not even attempt to offer any medical
advice, nor am I in a position to fully describe what all the above tests
entail....but I do know that those were the tests that they were going
to run on me in order to evaluate the viability of performing a lung removal
......Hope this helps. I would definitely do a lot of research on
the subject and would certainly as many questions and get more than one
opinion. That's just my opinion....Good luck. Cori.
Lori and Tom Anderson-Finwall wrote:
Hi all, What
kind of a pre sugerical assessment left lung removal does a 70 year old
have to go though? So they check for Sleep apniea ( the stoping to breathing
during sleep for short peroids of time)?Lori
Anderson
