What are the complications of advanced lung cancer? What are the postoperative complications of lung

The main complications of advanced lung cancer include pneumothorax and dyspnea. Metastases to distant organs can lead to complications such as increased intracranial pressure and nerve damage, bone metastases that can lead to pathological fractures, and liver metastases that can lead to liver failure.

Advanced complications of lung cancer can lead to lung infections that manifest as fever, cough, yellow purulent sputum, and sometimes respiratory failure. It is manifested by the occurrence of cyanosis of the mucous membranes of the whole body, headache, dizziness and even coma. Some will also be complicated by cor pulmonale.

Basically all common diseases can be complications. It is thought that the patient has low immunity, body organ function, endocrine and other disorders, and can be complicated by any disease at any time (any disease can invade the patient's body more easily than normal people).

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Lung cancer is a complex disease, and its complications are determined by the location of the cancer metastasis, if it metastasizes to the sternum, it will cause pain in the patient's sternum; If it metastasizes to the heart, it will cause symptoms such as pericardial effusion, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and wheezing. If it metastasizes to the skull, it can cause some brain symptoms, such as coma, intracranial hypertension, etc.

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The surgery is not necessarily thorough, there is residual blood in the blood, and chemotherapy must be given! Postoperative complications: pleural infection, bronchopleural fistula, cardiovascular complications, respiratory failure, intrathoracic hemorrhage, empyema, respiratory complications.

Pleural infection: most often caused by intrathoracic contamination during surgery and is also associated with poor patient resistance. Management of pleural infections can sometimes be quite difficult.

Respiratory failure: more common in patients undergoing pneumonectomy and significant impairment of lung function before surgery. This complication is more difficult and has a higher mortality rate.

Intrathoracic hemorrhage, which mostly occurs within 24 hours after surgery, is caused by incomplete hemostasis during surgery, or the sutures of the ligated blood vessels fall off, which is a serious complication after lung cancer surgery, and needs to be treated urgently, and if necessary, the chest should be dissected again in time to stop the bleeding. Empyema: caused by contamination of the chest cavity by bronchial or pulmonary secretions during surgery.

Lung cancer is a malignant disease that develops very quickly, and if patients do not detect the condition in time and carry out it in time, they will often enter the middle and advanced stages quickly, and various complications will appear, and these complications will be very harmful to health. So, what are the complications of lung cancer? The following are complications that can be caused by lung cancer:

After the aggravation of lung cancer, a large amount of pleural effusion will be produced, resulting in respiratory and circulatory disorders in patients, and even life-threatening if not treated in time.

Lung cancer can metastasize to brain tissue, inducing intracranial hypertension syndrome, patients can usually have headaches, headaches, abnormal vision and other symptoms, and severe patients have cerebral herniation, hemiplegia, limb paresthesia, endocrine disorders, and even life-threatening.

The continuous proliferation of cancerous tissues can block the bronchial tubes, causing obstructive pneumonia, and if the bronchial blockage is not relieved in time, the patient will usually have repeated symptoms of high fever, and even septic shock may occur in severe cases.

Lung cancer lesions are rich in blood vessels, such as the patient's usual cough leads to internal vascular rupture and bleeding, resulting in sudden massive hemoptysis, which can be life-threatening when the patient has a large amount of bleeding.

Lung cancer cells secrete hormones that can lead to metabolic disorders in patients, causing symptoms such as hypoglycemia, hypercalcemia, hypocalcium, hyperkalemia or hypokalemia, hypophosphate, and hyposodium, thereby causing various symptoms such as confusion, frequent vomiting, syncope, and arrhythmia.

After the advanced metastasis of lung cancer to the cervical spine and lumbar spine of the patient, it will cause different degrees of compression of the spinal cord, causing limb sensory impairment and movement disorder, and after the condition is severe, it can cause incontinence and paraplegia, resulting in a great reduction in the quality of life of the patient.

Because the patient's airway is filled with viscous sputum or blood clots, it can lead to blockage of the bronchi and trachea, and in severe cases, it can lead to suffocation.

Lung cancer or its metastases can lead to compression of the superior vena cava, and in severe cases, it will induce superior vena cava syndrome.

Lung cancer can metastasize to the patient's pericardium, resulting in a large amount of fluid accumulation in the pericardium, and can cause symptoms such as decreased blood pressure, shortness of breath, palpitations, and even shock in severe cases.

Complications of lung cancer are mainly caused by advanced metastases. If metastasis to the pleura, it can cause chest pain and pleural effusion, if advanced lymphadenopathy compresses the superior vena cava, it can cause superior vena cava syndrome, metastasis to the brain can cause headache and dizziness, metastasis to the liver can cause epigastric pain, and if metastasis to bone, it can cause pain in the corresponding area.

Complications of lung cancer are common in the advanced stage of malignant pleural effusion, hemoptysis, and cachexia states such as malnutrition, extreme emaciation, mental malaise, and loss of appetite. Metastases that occur late are prone to brain metastases and bone metastases. Brain metastases tend to cause headaches, dizziness, poor mental status, and bone metastases can cause progressive pain to worsen.

Palliative care** is recommended to improve the patient's quality of life.

1. Luoyang lung cancer: the metastatic route of lung cancer, the cancer can grow into the bronchial lumen after the occurrence of the bronchial wall, causing the lumen to narrow or completely obstructed. The cancer grows outside the bronchi and invades the lung tissue, and then spreads and expands to invade adjacent organs and tissues, and the ** type lung cancer spreads and expands into the hilum and mediastinum and can compress or invade lymph, blood vessels, nerves and a variety of organs and tissues located in the mediastinum.

Peripheral lung cancers close to the lung margins often invade the pleura, causing pleural effusions and chest wall metastases. 2. Lymphatic metastasis Luoyang lung cancer: the metastatic route of lung cancer, lymphatic metastasis is the main common diffusion route of bronchial lung cancer.

Undifferentiated small cell carcinoma can metastasize through the lymphatic tract at an early stage, squamous cell carcinoma metastasis through the lymphatic tract is very common, adenocarcinoma often metastasizes through the bloodstream, but lymphatic metastasis can also occur. Mediastinal paratracheal and cervical lymph node metastases generally occur on the same side of lung cancer, while left-sided lung cancer lymph metastases can occur on the opposite side of lung cancer, the so-called cross metastasis. After lung cancer invades the chest wall and diaphragmatic pleura, it can metastasize to the axilla, neck, and epigastric lymph nodes through the lymphatic tract.

3. Blood tract metastasis: Lung cancer with blood tract metastasis has entered an advanced stage. Undifferentiated carcinoma can present with bloodstream metastases at an early stage. Transhemrugal metastasis of adenocarcinoma is more common.

It is also uncommon for advanced squamous cell carcinoma to metastasize through the bloodstream. Usually, cancer cells invade the pulmonary venous system, and then metastasize to various organs and tissues throughout the body through the left heart with the systemic blood flow, and the most common metastasis sites are liver, bones, adrenal glands, kidneys, brain, etc. Luoyang lung cancer experts from Luoyang Central Hospital of Henan Province wish you a speedy **!

Lung cancer is the most common primary malignant tumor of the lung, and the vast majority of lung cancers originate from the bronchial mucosal epithelium, so it is also called bronchial lung cancer. In the past 50 years, the incidence and mortality rate of lung cancer have increased rapidly in all countries in the world, especially in industrialized countries, and lung cancer has ranked first among male patients who die of cancer. More than 40 years ago, the vast majority of patients who underwent surgery for lung diseases in China were pulmonary tuberculosis, followed by bronchiectasis, lung abscess and other lung purulent diseases, and there were few cases of lung cancer.

Chest pain, severe loss of appetite, unexplained headache, vomiting, visual disturbances, and changes in personality and spleen may be caused by intracranial hypertension or cranial nerve damage caused by lung cancer metastasizing to the brain. It is commonly found in small cell lung cancer and adenocarcinoma types. Shortness of breath, pleural effusion.

Pre-death symptoms of advanced lung cancer, almost all patients with advanced lung cancer with regional spread have varying degrees of shortness of breath. Normal tissue fluid produced by the lungs and heart muscle is returned by lymph nodes in the middle of the chest. If these lymph nodes are blocked by a tumor, these tissue fluids can accumulate in the pericardium to form a pericardial effusion or accumulate in the chest cavity to form a pleural effusion.

Both of these conditions can cause shortness of breath. The cause of fatigue is unknown, but it may be due to digestive disturbances, energy deficits due to nutrient absorption, or the release of toxic substances due to necrosis of lung cancer tissue. Emaciation is also a pre-death symptom of advanced lung cancer due to impaired liver function.

Caused by decreased digestion and absorption. As the disease progresses, the degree of wasting may worsen, and in severe cases, cachexia may develop. Edema of the face and neck.

This is also a typical variation of the anterior symptoms of advanced lung cancer: the superior vena cava on the right side of the mediastinum, which transfuses venous blood from the upper extremities and head and neck back to the heart. If the tumor invades the right side of the mediastinum and compresses the superior vena cava, the jugular vein will initially distangle due to poor return, and eventually lead to facial and cervical edema, which needs to be diagnosed and treated promptly. In addition to the above-mentioned common metastatic sites, the less common metastatic sites of lung cancer include metastasis of subcutaneous tissue, muscle, intra-abdominal cavity, heart and other parts, and the symptoms are often related to the metastatic site.

If it is transferred to the heart, symptoms such as chest tightness, palpitations and even shortness of breath, syncope, and heart rhythm disorders may occur. For details, you can find information about Beijing Desheng Gate.

1.Sudden massive hemoptysis caused by rupture of blood vessels in lung cancer lesions. 2.

Persistent high fever and even septic shock caused by severe infections such as obstructive pneumonia. 3.Intracranial hypertension syndrome caused by lung cancer metastasis to the brain, severe and life-threatening.

4.Lung cancer metastases to the pericardium, causing palpitations, shortness of breath, decreased blood pressure, and even shock due to large pericardial effusions. 5.

Lung cancer or its metastases compress the superior vena cava, causing superior vena cava syndrome, resulting in head and neck edema, swelling pain, and even dyspnea and confusion. 6.Asphyxia due to obstruction of the trachea or bronchi due to phlegm obstruction or hemoptysis clots.

7.Frequent vomiting, syncope, mental confusion, and arrhythmia caused by metabolic disorders such as hypoglycemia, hypocalcium, hypercalcium, hypocalcium, hypokalemia, hyposodium, and hypophosphate caused by hormone secretion by lung cancer cells. 8.

Lung cancer metastasizes to the spine and causes limb sensory and motor impairment caused by spinal cord compression, and even paraplegia, incontinence, etc. 9.Large pleural effusions can cause breathing, circulatory disorders, and can be life-threatening.

Respiratory complications Hemothorax, empyema, and bronchopleural fistula after surgery Cardiovascular complications.