Table II.

Functional status of the patients undergoing lung resection (n = 24)

Variable	Mean	Med.	Sd	Min.	Max.	P-value*
FVC0	96.6	100.0	19.2	67	139
FVC1	64.3	64.0	18.2	23	102	< 0.001x
FVC2	80.0	76.0	14.7	48	108	< 0.001x
FVC3	88.3	90.0	13.2	62	108	0.001x
VC0	95.2	98.0	20.5	64	144
VC1	63.8	62.5	18.5	22	102	< 0.001x
VC2	79.1	74.5	15.7	46	108	< 0.001x
VC3	87.2	87.0	14.7	60	110	0.001x
FEV10	90.9	92.0	16.9	59	126
FEV11	61.4	64.0	13.1	26	81	< 0.001x
FEV12	74.4	73.0	13.0	47	97	< 0.001x
FEV13	80.7	81.0	11.8	59	109	< 0.001x
FEV1/FVC0	77.4	78.7	7.9	62.1	88.7
FEV1/FVC1	79.8	80.7	10.0	58.3	93.9	0.016x
FEV1/FVC2	75.9	77.6	9.4	59.1	90.5	0.869x
FEV1/FVC3	74.8	75.7	9.1	57.4	90.7	0.111x
TLC0	91.8	89.0	21.0	51	135
TLC1	70.9	69.0	17.4	32	104	< 0.001x
TLC2	75.3	76.0	17.6	40	107	< 0.001x
TLC3	81.5	80.0	18.5	43	113	0.001x

FVC – forced vital capacity, VC – vital capacity, FEV₁ – forced expiratory volume in 1 s, TLC – total lung capacity.

⁰before surgery,

¹discharge from hospital,

²3 weeks after surgery,

³3 months after surgery. All parameters are expressed in normative values.

^*Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test,

^xpairwise comparison to the condition before surgery.