Lobectomy Cost in Egypt

Three lobes are present in our right lung and two lobes is present in our left lung. Lobectomy is a surgery in which the entire lobe of your lungs is removed due to some reasons such as lung cancer, COPD or presence of any benign tumors.

Lobectomy is needed when you have any infection in your lungs such as tuberculosis, lung abscess, emphysema, benign tumors,lung cancer or fungal infections.

Thoracic surgeon is specialized in during lobectomy. They take care of your lungs, trachea, esophagus, wind pipe and diaphgram.

To prepare yourself for lobectomy your doctor will ask you to improve your breathing technique by pulmonary rehabilitation. You will also be asked to stop smoking for a month before surgery, and blood thinning medicines.

For open type lobectomy it may take around 2 to 7 hours.

During your lobectomy you will not feel any pain because it is done under general anaesthesia. After the surgery you may experience pain depending on the severity of your surgery.

You may hear a rubbing sound as your lung and chest walls rubs against each other. This sound can be heard in patients who have tuberculosis, pneumonis, lung cancer as well as lobectomy.

A chest tube is placed in the upper area of the thoracic cavity and for lower lobectomy we place it in lower area for draining both fluid and air. Patients who have large amount of air leakage or haemorrhage mainly two chest tubes are used.

Lung the five lobes three in right lung and two in left lung, in lobectomy one of the lobe is removed. After surgery the healthy tissue will be made for the missing section so that working of lungs may improve.

Usually three to five days of hospital stay is needed after lobectomy depending on your condition and type of procedure performed. When you are discharged you will be given instructions to follow.

Some sort of breathlessness is normal after surgery depending on the type of surgery done and your recover. If you have some breathing issues before the surgery you may have some breathing problems after surgery also.

Coughing is the common complication after lung surgery along with throat discomfort, wheezing and shortness of breath.

Ribs are usually not broken for lung surgery, even though it may be needed in some cases such as removal of any malignant tumor and the severity of the disease. 

The space is filled with sterile fluid at first then some changes happens in the chest physiology such as such shifting of mediastinum diaphrahm and narrowing of the intercostals space which eliminates the residual space.

You can sleep in any position which is comfortable for you, some patients need to sleep in upright position some time it may be painful on your side.

The recovery time after lung surgery is 2 to 7 days, once you go home from hospital it will take you around few weeks to months to recover completely.

Chemotherapy lowers the risk of your cancer occurrence and also improves your prognosis, chemotherapy and radiation together make the treatments more effective, after surgery you may also be recommended targeted therapy or immunotherapy.

Pleural effusion is seen after lung resection because of disorders in the balancing of pleural fluid which reduces the postoperative lung expansion. To reduce pleural effusion chest tube is placed to reduce the incidence of post operative pleural effusion.