Effect of Preserving the Pulmonary Branch of Vagus Nerve on Postoperative Cough 
in Patients with Stage I Peripheral Lung Adenocarcinoma

• Published in: Zhongguo fei ai za zhi 2024-02, Vol.27 (2), p.102-108
• Main Authors: Wang, Gaoxiang, Chen, Zhengwei, Wu, Mingsheng, Li, Tian, Sun, Xiaohui, Xu, Meiqing, Xie, Mingran
• Format: Article
• Language: Chinese
• Subjects: Adenocarcinoma of Lung - complications; Adenocarcinoma of Lung - surgery; Cancer surgery; Chinese languages; Chronic Cough; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; cough; Cough - epidemiology; Cough - etiology; Humans; Lung cancer; Lung diseases; lung neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms - complications; Lung Neoplasms - surgery; mandarin chinese version of the leicester cough questionnaire; nervi vagus; Pneumonectomy; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Retrospective Studies; Thoracic surgery; Tomography; Vagus Nerve
• ISSN: 1009-3419; 1999-6187
• DOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2023.102.48

Cough is one of the main complications after pulmonary surgery, which seriously affects the postoperative quality of life. Preserving the pulmonary branch of vagus nerve may reduce the incidence of postoperative cough. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether preserving the pulmonary branch of the vagus nerve could reduce the incidence of postoperative chronic cough in patients with stage I peripheral lung adenocarcinoma. A total of 125 patients who underwent single-port thoracoscopic radical resection for lung cancer in the Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China from June 2022 to June 2023 were retrospectively selected, and divided into two groups according to whether the vagopulmonary branch was preserved during the operation, namely, the vagopulmonary branch group (n=61) and the traditional group (n=64). The general clinical data, perioperative conditions, lymph node dissection, Mandarin Chinese version of The Leices