Division of Thoracic and Hyperbaric Surgery
Research fields, Methods and Equipment
Research Fields
- Alpha-Ketoglutaric acid and hydroxymethylfurfural for preoperative functional improvement.
- Combined stenting procedures for bronchogenic or esophageal carcinoma.
- Hyperbaric Oxygenation (Toxicology, necrotizing soft-tissue infections, radiogenic lesions, pediatric indications, central nervous lesions, burn injury).
- Immunomodulation by photodynamic therapy.
- Immunonutrition and early enteral feeding in esophageal surgery
- Impedance spectroscopy for in-vivo online monitoring of interstitial lung water
- Influence of hyperbaric environment on cardiac and neuronal functional parameters.
- Influence of photodynamic therapy (PDT) on immunologic parameters in patients with esophageal carcinoma.
- Intersitial oxymetry during esophageal surgery
- Interstitial in vivo clinical Microdialysis (lung, soft-tissue)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy of lung cancer
- Multimodal, interdisciplinary treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma.
- Multimodal, interdisciplinary treatment of esophageal carcinoma.
- Perioperative kinetics of IL-6, IL-8 and CRP for early diagnosis of septiform reactions.
- Photodynamic tumour therapy (endoscopical: bronchus, esophagus; intraoperative: pleural mesothelioma).
- Prognostic value of vitamin D3-levels in patients with malignant tumours of the bronchus and of the esophagus.
Methods
- Complex resective and reconstructive procedures in the surgery of lung and esophagus
- Esophageal stenting
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Immunonutrition
- Impedance spectroscopy
- Interstitial clinical microdialysis
- Interstitial oxygen measurement
- Intraoperative radiation therapy
- Minimally invasive Lobectomy
- Photodynamic therapy
- Pulmonary laser surgery
- Tracheobronchial stenting
- Video-assisted intrathoracic diagnosis/resection (diagnostic and therapeutic VATS)
Equipment
Facility for video-assisted thoracic surgery
Diode laser for photodynamic tumour therapy
Experimental hyperbaric chamber for hyperbaric oxyen treatment of small anaesthetized animals.
Interventional endoscopy unit (esophagoscopy, bronchoscopy), intra-interventional fluoroscopy, jet ventilation
Oxymeter for interstitial oxymetry
Perfusion system for interstitial Microdialysis.
Walk-in drive in hyperbaric chamber for hyperbaric oxygen therapy of intensive care or outpatient cases or for intraoperative hyperbaric oxygenation.
YAG-Laser for endoluminal and open surgery (surgery of pulmonary metastasis)
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