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- Title
Usefulness of fetal magnetic resonance imaging for postnatal management of congenital lung cysts: prediction of probability for emergency surgery.
- Authors
Shirota, Chiyoe; Tainaka, Takahisa; Nakane, Toshiki; Tanaka, Yujiro; Hinoki, Akinari; Sumida, Wataru; Murase, Naruhiko; Oshima, Kazuo; Chiba, Kosuke; Shirotsuki, Ryo; Uchida, Hiroo
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Emergency rescue lung resection is rarely performed to treat congenital lung cysts (CLCs) in neonates. Many reports have described fetal CLC treatment; however, prenatal predictors for postnatal respiratory failure have not been characterized. We hypothesized that fetal imaging findings are useful predictors of emergency surgery.<bold>Methods: </bold>We retrospectively studied patients with CLC who underwent lung surgery during the neonatal period in our hospital between January 2001 and December 2015. The demographic data, fetal imaging findings, and intra- and postoperative courses of patients who underwent emergency surgery (Em group) were compared with those of patients who received elective surgery, i.e., non-emergency surgery (Ne group).<bold>Results: </bold>The Em group and Ne group included 7 and 11 patients, respectively. No significant difference was noted in gestational age, time at prenatal diagnosis, birth weight, and body weight at surgery. The volumes of contralateral lung per thoracic volume were significantly smaller in the Em group than in the Ne group (p = 0.0188). Mediastinal compression was more common in the Em group (7/7) than in the Ne group (4/11) (p = 0.0128).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>This is the report describing neonatal emergency lobectomy in patients with CLC evaluated by fetal MRI using the lung volume ratio and mediastinal shift. In patients with CLC, mediastinal shift and significant decreases in contralateral lung volumes during the fetal stages are good prenatal predictors of postnatal emergency lung resection.
- Subjects
LOBECTOMY (Lung surgery); FETAL MRI; POSTNATAL care; CYSTS (Pathology); RESPIRATORY insufficiency; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
BMC Pediatrics, 2018, Vol 18, p1
- ISSN
1471-2431
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12887-018-1085-z