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Surgical Management of an Aspergillus Empyema in a 3‐Year‐Old Child

Case Reports in Medicine, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Aspergillus empyema in nonimmunocompromised children is rare. A case of surgical management of invasive aspergillosis in a previously healthy 3‐year‐old child is presented. The patient was initially admitted to a hospital with severe respiratory deterioration and clinical instability, originally attributed to sepsis. After surgical intervention and the
Meletios A. Kanakis, Konstantinos Th. Petsios, Nicholas M. Giannopoulos, Dimitrios Bobos, Sofia Hatzianastasiou, Lida C. Sianidou, Achilleas Lioulias, Bruno Megarbane   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing bias in open-label trials where blinded outcome assessment is not feasible: strategies from two randomised trials [PDF]

, 2014
Background Blinded outcome assessment is recommended in open-label trials to reduce bias, however it is not always feasible. It is therefore important to find other means of reducing bias in these scenarios.
A Dechartres, A Hrobjartsson, A Hrobjartsson, A Hrobjartsson, AW Chan, BC Kahan, BG Feagan, Brennan C Kahan, C Tudur Smith, C Villanueva, Caroline J Doré, CM Dresler, Daniel J Bratton, H Putter, I Boutron, J Savovic, JH Noseworthy, K Linde, KE Thorpe, KF Schulz, KF Schulz, L Wood, Najib Rahman, Nick A Maskell, RW Poolman, S Wright, Sunita Rehal, Suzie Cro, V Jairath, Vipul Jairath   +29 more
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Doxycycline poudrage in pleurodesis of malignant pleural effusion: a novel modality for an old agent

The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2017
Context Malignant pleural effusion is a common presentation of several malignancies. Chemical pleurodesis is important in its management, but no consensus exists on the optimal agent or methods of pleurodesis.
Tamer A. Elhadidy, Ahmed M. Abumossalam, Mohamed S. Elashry   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Management of malignant pleural effusion in Italian clinical practice: a nationwide survey

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023
Background Pleural disease (PD), particularly malignant pleural effusion (MPE), is a common cause of hospital admission and its prevalence is rising worldwide.
Federico Mei, Mario Tamburrini, Francesca Gonnelli, Luca Morandi, Martina Bonifazi, Michele Sediari, Alessandro di Marco Berardino, Emanuela Barisione, Giuseppe Failla, Lina Zuccatosta, Alberto Papi, Stefano Gasparini, Giampietro Marchetti   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Medical Life of Henry Norman Bethune

Canadian Respiratory Journal, Volume 22, Issue 6, Page e32-e42, 2015., 2015
Canadian Respiratory Journal, Volume 22, Issue 6, Page 312-312, 2015.
Jean Deslauriers, Denis Goulet
wiley   +2 more sources

Rapid on-site evaluation of touch imprints of medical thoracoscopy biopsy tissue for the management of pleural disease

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
Background and objectiveMedical thoracoscopy (MT) plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases, and rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) has long been used for transbronchial needle aspiration or fine-needle aspiration to ...
Hansheng Wang, Yan Liu, Jiankun Wang, Tao Ren, Guoshi Luo, Hui You, Xiao Wang, Dan Li, Lei Wang, Meifang Wang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chest ultrasonography to assess the kinetics and efficacy of talc pleurodesis in a model of pneumothorax: an experimental animal study

ERJ Open Research, 2018
Talc pleurodesis is used to avoid recurrences in malignant pleural effusions or pneumothorax. The lack of lung sliding detected by chest ultrasonography (CUS) after talc application is indicative of the effectiveness of pleurodesis.
Rachid Tazi-Mezalek, Diane Frankel, Marc Fortin, Elise Kaspi, Julien Guinde, Alexandra Assolen, Sophie Laroumagne, Andree Robaglia, Herve Dutau, Patrice Roll, Philippe Astoul   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Day Case Local Anaesthetic Thoracoscopy: Experience from 2 District General Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Local anaesthetic thoracoscopy (LAT) can be a vital procedure for diagnosis of unexplained pleural effusions. Traditionally, poudrage for pleurodesis and insertion of a large bore drain necessitated admission.
Megan Turner, Felicity Craighead, Joseph Donald MacKenzie, Avinash Aujayeb   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Therapeutic Medical Thoracoscopy

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2015
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P.A. Mori, A.G. Casalini
doaj   +1 more source

Talc poudrage for malignant pleural effusion

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1966
Summary and conclusions 1. Talc poudrage was used in the management of 17 patients with malignant pleural effusion(s). Thirteen of the 17 patients were benefited by control of their effusion (s). 2. No single method of application of talc can be successfully applied in all patients.
F G, Pearson, D C, MacGregor
openaire   +2 more sources