• Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
CHE Guowei, Email: guowei_che@yahoo.com
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Objective  To explore the factors of postoperative cough in lung cancer patients. Methods  Totally 130 lung cancer patients of single medical team (average age of 58.75±9.34 years, 65 males and 65 females), from February 2016 to February 2017 in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, were investigated by Mandarin Chinese version of the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ-MC). We analyzed and calculated the preoperative and postoperative scores of LCQ-MC, Cronbach α and the influencing factor. Results  The preoperative score of LCQ-MC's physiological dimension was significantly lower in the postoperative cough group (6.30±0.76) than that of the postoperative non-cough group (6.56±0.60,P=0.044), while the preoperative total score of LCQ-MC (19.53±1.78, 20.03±1.45) was not statistically different (P=0.080). The postoperative score of LCQ-MC was significantly lower in the postoperative cough group (17.32±2.79) than that of the postoperative non-cough group (19.70±1.39,P<0.001). And the scores of physiological, psychological and social dimension were significantly lower in the postoperative cough group (5.32 ±1.14, 5.73±1.14, 6.23±0.89) than those of the postoperative non-cough group (6.25±0.63, 6.67±0.54, 6.78±0.49) (P values were all less than 0.001). The result of multi-factor logistic regression analysis showed the condition of preoperative cough symptom (OR=0.354, 95%CI=0.126–0.994, P=0.049) and anesthesia time (OR=1.021, 95% CI=1.003–1.040, P=0.021) were the risk factors. Conclusion  The risk factors of postoperative cough symptoms in lung cancer patients are the condition of preoperative cough symptoms and anesthesia time.

Citation: LIN Rongjia, CHE Guowei, XU Zhihua, WANG Mingming, LI Pengfei, YANG Mei. Influencing factors of postoperative cough after lung resection in patients with lung cancer by video-assisted thoracic surgery: a single centre prospective study. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017, 24(10): 748-752. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.201704008 Copy

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