Premananth P

Abstract

There is increase in cancer incidence both globally and country wise. Especially with the increase in air pollution, industrialisation, second hand smoke exposure etc. there is increase in lung cancer cases. Moreover there is trend in pathological shift from squamous cell carcinoma to adenocarcinoma and increasing occurrence of lung cancer in females. Objective: To find the histological distribution. Materials and Methods: Cross sectional study involving 50 patients with clinicoradiological suspicion of lung cancer. Diagnosis was reached either by bronchoscopy, CT guided biopsy or both. Results: Adenocarcinoma is the most common histological type. Keywords: Cancer, Lung, Histology.

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There has been rise in trend of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and threatening complications is a health care challenge among all lung diseases. Objective: To assess the severity among COPD patients and classify based on Spirometry findings among those attending the resipatry medicine outpatient department in a tertiary care hospital, Madurai and to assess the right heart status with Echocardiography among the same study participants. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out including 120 patients by convenience sampling and all the study findings were entered in excel sheets. Results: The study shows direct relation between the severity of the COPD and right heart status. Keywords:  Chronic obstructive pulmonary, Disease, Spirometry, Pulmonary hypertension, Cor pulmonale, Echocardiography.

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