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• Physiological Biomarkers Assessed by Low‐Tech Exercise Tests Predict Complications and Overall Survival in Patients Undergoing Pneumonectomy Due to Lung Cancer

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  • T. Marjanski
  • D. Wnuk
  • R. Dziedzic
  • M. Ostrowski
  • W. Sawicka
  • E. Marjańska
  • W. Rzyman

  - Cancers - Year 2021

  Due to its debilitating character pneumonectomy this is last‐resort procedure. Preoperative results of the 6‐min walking test (6MWT) help to identify high risk of postoperative complications and increased mortality in patients undergoing lobectomy for lung cancer. The aim of the study was to validate the value of 500 m in 6MWT as an indicator, which differentiates risk of complications in patients undergoing pneumonectomy. 125...

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