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Advanced medical interventions in pleural disease [PDF]

, 2016
The burden of a number of pleural diseases continues to increase internationally. Although many pleural procedures have historically been the domain of interventional radiologists or thoracic surgeons, in recent years, there has been a marked expansion ...
Astoul, Philippe, Bhatnagar, Rahul, Corcoran, John P., Feller-Kopman, David, Janssen, Julius, Maldonado, Fabien, Rahman, Najib M.   +6 more
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Dose de-escalation of intrapleural tissue plasminogen activator therapy for pleural infection. The alteplase dose assessment for Pleural infection Therapy project [PDF]

, 2017
Rationale: Intrapleural therapy with a combination of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) 10 mg and DNase 5 mg administered twice daily has been shown in randomized and open-label studies to successfully manage over 90% of patients with pleural infection ...
Bintcliffe, Oliver, Blyth, Kevin G., De Fonseka, Duneesha, Edey, Anthony, Lee, Y. C. Gary, Martin, Geoffrey, Maskell, Nick, Piccolo, Francesco, Popowicz, Natalia, Smith, Nicola A., Wong, Donny   +10 more
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Modified indwelling pleural catheter versus silver nitrate pleurodesis for the management of malignant pleural effusion

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2022
Background About half of the patients suffering from malignant pleural effusion (MPE) complain of dyspnea with poor quality of life. Objective The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of silver nitrate pleurodesis (SNP) via tube ...
Mohammed F Abdelghany, Khaled Essmat, Atef Farouk El-Karn, Sahar Farghly Youssif   +3 more
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Management of Septated Malignant Pleural Effusions [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose of Review: We review recent studies of patients with septated malignant pleural effusions, to understand what the clinical implications for patients are and what evidence-based methods should be used to manage these effusions.
AR Medford, CL Chung, CW Davies, E Okur, E Rivera-Flores, ET Fysh, HE Davies, LH Hsu, ME Roberts, MR Vial, N Taghizadeh, NA Maskell, NA Maskell, O Saydam, R Thomas, RC Gilkeson, S Bielsa   +16 more
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Double-Pigtail Drainage Catheter: A New Design for Efficient Pleural Drainage

Medicina, 2023
Background and Objectives: The novel double-pigtail catheter (DPC) has an additional pigtail coiling at the mid-shaft with multiple centripetal side holes.
Youngjong Cho, Hyoung Nam Lee, Ji Hoon Shin, Sung-Joon Park, Sangjoon Lee, Jae-Seok Song   +5 more
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Metastatic seeding of colon adenocarcinoma manifesting as synchronous breast and chest wall localization: report of a case. [PDF]

, 2011
Colon carcinoma rarely metastasizes to the breast and it is usually associated with a poor prognosis. Even rarer is metastatic seeding of colon cancer cells in an intramammary location after surgery.
Cabibi, D., Cipolla, C., Ingrao, S., Valerio, M.   +3 more
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Talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion: efficacy and factors predicting recurrence [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives: To identify potential factors predicting recurrence after talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion. Methods: Retrospective study of two cohorts of consecutive patients undergoing surgery for malignant pleural effusion (T VATS/talc ...
Froeschle, P, Getzki ,T, Protopapas, A, Tacconi, F   +3 more
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Predicting survival in malignant pleural effusion: development and validation of the LENT prognostic score [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) causes debilitating breathlessness and predicting survival is challenging. This study aimed to obtain contemporary data on survival by underlying tumour type in patients with MPE, identify prognostic ...
Amelia O Clive, Andrew R L Medford, Anevlavis, Anna J Morley, Bielsa, Brennan C Kahan, Burrows, Claire L Tobin, Clare E Hooper, Curran, Davies, Dresler, Edward T H Fysh, Harrell, Heffner, Herndon, John E Harvey, Kahan, Kao, Li, Martinez-Moragon, Michel M van den Heuvel, Natalie Zahan-Evans, Nick A Maskell, Oliver J Bintcliffe, Ozyurtkan, Pilling, Pinato, Proctor, Putnam, Rahul Bhatnagar, Roberts, Rogier C Boshuizen, Royston, Suzuki, Tan, White, Y C Gary Lee   +37 more
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A Descriptive Study of Nosocomial Infections in an Adult Intensive Care Unit in Fiji: 2011-12 [PDF]

, 2016
Copyright © 2014 Keshni Naidu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited ...
Bissell, Karen, Graham, Stephen M, Nabose, Ilisapeci, Naidu, Keshni, Ram, S, Viney, Kerri   +5 more
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Use of tunnelled pleural catheter for palliative treatment of malignant pleural effusion : experience of a third level hospital [PDF]

, 2022
Q4Pacientes con cáncerIntroduction: Pleural effusion is a manifestation of advanced cancer that is associated with symptoms whose control requires adopting different strategies. This study aimed to characterize the population of patients with malignant
Botero Bahamon, Juan David, Fernández Sánchez, Maria José, Lasso Apráez, Javier Iván, Serrano, Natalia, Torres, July Vianeth, Villaquirán-Torres, Claudio   +5 more
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