FINAL EXAM
DECEMBER 2020
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THORACIC SURGERY
PAPER-III
Time: 3 hours
Max. Marks: 100
Important Instructions:
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- You are provided with 5 answer sheet booklets. Each individual answer sheet booklet consists of 10 pages excluding the covering jackets.
- Answers to all the questions must be attempted within these 5 answer sheet booklets which must be later tagged together at the end of the exam.
- No additional supplementary answer sheet booklet will be provided.
- Attempt all questions in order.
- Each question carries 10 marks.
- Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
- Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
- Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
- Answer all the parts of a single question together.
- Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
- Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
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Write short notes on:
-  a) Living donor lobar lung transplantation – Indications, technique and outcome. 6+4 
 b) Management airway complications after lung transplantation.
-  a) Robotic thymectomy. 4+6 --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- b) Sub-xiphoid versus conventional Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
-  a) Criteria for acceptability of donor lungs. 4+6 
 b) Absolute and relative contraindications for lung transplantation.
-  a) Airway stents and conduits. 6+4 
 b) Staples used in lung surgery.
-  a) Surgical approaches for cervical rib excision. 6+4 
 b) Perfadex solution and its alternatives.
-  a) High flow oxygen therapy. 3+7 
 b) Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation – Indications and uses in viral pneumonia and Thoracic Surgery.
-  a) Ravitch procedure. 4+6 --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- b) Congenital pulmonary airway malformation – diagnosis and treatment.
-  a) Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension – diagnosis and management. 6+4 
 b) Sealants and adhesives in thoracic surgery.
-  a) Boerhaave's syndrome. 4+6 
 b) Esophageal stents and conduits.
-  a) Gene therapy for lung cancer. 5+5 
 b) Management of chylo-thorax.
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